Meanings
alternative Ch'ang-ko
- A county-level city of Xuchang, Henan, China.
The bowl and dish (Nos. 82-83) were intended for culinary use. They are two of six vessels unearthed in flawless condition from a cache in Changge County, Henan Province.
1988, Robert L. Thorp, Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1504 more examples
In 1958 a production brigade in Changko county, Honan province, improved its soil by deep plowing and greatly increased its grain output. Chairman Mao recommended its experience to the whole country and called on all the communes to do the same.
[1976 August, “Land Improvement in China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXV, number 8, Peking: China Welfare Institute, →OCLC, page 29, column 3In the village of Pohu in Changko county, four children, left alone to play, fell into a well and were drowned. Accidents of this type, however, were not the only cause of infant and child mortality. Disease was the greatest killer.
[1980 [1951 October], Carolyn Teich Adams, Kathryn Teich Winston, “Social Policies for Working Families: A Comparative Inventory”, in Mothers at Work: Public Policies in the United States, Sweden, and China, New York; London: Longman, sourced from "Farm Nursery in Honan," China Monthly Review, 121, no. 4, 207, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 30Those convicted were hired by authorities from Changge city in central Henan province to stop petitioners airing their grievances in Beijing, the People’s Daily said on its website, citing a Beijing newspaper.
2012 December 2, Chen Aizhu, Niu Shuping, “In rare case, Beijing court sentences petitioner interceptors”, in Ben Blanchard, Daniel Magnowski, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2020, World News“It’s been difficult for companies to resume work and production,” Zhang Yongchao, the office manager of the veteran affairs bureau of Changge, a city an hour from the Foxconn plant, told The Times.
2022 November 18, Chang Che, John Liu, “An iPhone Factory Needs Workers. The Chinese Government Wants to Help.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023, Business
Origin
- Mandarin長葛 /长葛
- EnglishChangge
From Mandarin 長葛 /长葛 (Chánggě).
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Chinese Cantonese 長葛 /长葛
- 長葛 /长葛 (coeng⁴ got³)county-level city
Chinese Mandarin 長葛 /长葛
- 長葛 /长葛 (Chánggě, Chánggé)county-level city
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