Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Zhangzhou.
3. Since this country was near Chang-chou (Zhang's native city), the Chinese trade vessels often went there.
2016, “The Philippines in Dong Xi Yang Kao”, in Tulay, →ISSN Invalid ISSN, →OCLC, page 93 more examples
In Chang-p’u county (Chang-chou prefecture), for example, a gazetteer records 1.475 tou of seed per mou were used, while in Hai-ch’eng, its neighbor to the east, a figure of 1.2 tou of seed per mou is noted.
1972, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17Now, with one or two bottles of liquor, I can order a Taipei person to kill another. Why should I care: Most of the Taipei people are Chang-chou people, and we southerners are mainly Ch'uan'chou^([sic – meaning Ch'uan-chou]) people."
1981, Huang Shu-min, Agricultural Degradation Changing Community Systems in Rural Taiwan, University Press of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 89After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.
2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century, →OCLC, →OL, page 27
Origin
- Mandarin漳州
- EnglishChang-chou
From Mandarin 漳州 (Zhāngzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chou¹.
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