Chin-hua

At that time the surrounding country constantly harried by banditti who had occupied a stronghold in the mountains between Tʻai-chou and Chin-hua.

1889 January 25, “Abstract of Peking Gazette.”, in North-China Herald, volume XLII, number 1121, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 89, column 3

Porcelain painted in blue and white, and also that decorated with the deep blue monochrome glaze, both require this blue. It is obtained from the province of Chêkiang, being found on several mountains within the two prefectures of Shao-hsing and Chin-hua.

1891, Stephen W. Bushell, “Description of Modern Ware.”, in Description of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain; Being a Translation of the Tʽao shuo 陶說, Clarendon Press, published 1910, →OCLC, page 16

Before entering the priesthood he had already made a name for himself in Lan-hsi (modern Chin-hua in Chekiang Province) as a scholar and calligraphist under his family name Chiang.

1927, John C. Ferguson, “Painters of the Five Dynasties”, in Chinese Painting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 85

In 1941, Eberhard published a supplementary monograph in the same series, Volksmärchen aus Südost-China, Sammlung Ts'ao Sung-yeh, which offered the actual texts of 190 folktales translated into German, corresponding to many of the tale types he had previously established. This collection was chiefly obtained from schoolchildren in Chin-hua in Chekiang province, the seat of the aboriginal Yao culture.

1965, Richard M. Dorson, “Foreword”, in Folktales of China, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxix

An illustration of this is provided by the Lan-ch'i County Gazetteer (Lan-ch'i hsien-chih) for the Cheng-te reign (1506-1521), which gives the following figures from a survey made around 1228 in Lan-ch'i county in Wu-chou (present-day Chin-hua) in Chekiang:

1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135