Cha-pu

alternative Chapu

1. alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of Zhapu.

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   One route to Shanghai went via river and canal, and the second was to Cha-pu (in Chekiang) which at the time evidently stood at the mouth of a river directly connecting the Grand Canal below Soochow with the sea. Ts’ai also seems to indicate that the trade via Cha-pu was the larger, since it is there, he advises, the needed grain should be purchased.¹³ The impression that the Cha-pu route was the dominant one is further strengthened by an earlier report in 1706 that Cha-pu was the port for shipment of rice out of Soochow to Fukien.¹⁴

   1975, Han-sheng Chuan, Richard A. Kraus, Mid-Chʻing Rice Markets and Trade: An Essay in Price History, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60