Jih-chao

A form of Rizhao — A city in southeastern Shandong, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Rizhao.

    Shen Chi-ch’ing of Jih-chao was a provincial graduate and hsien director of studies of the Tao-kuang period.

    1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 251
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    There is also some evidence of a differentiation of personnel in other terms at this stage. At the Liang-ch'eng-chen site in Jih-chao on the coastal Shantung, there was one spot where finely made jade objects were concentrated.

    1962, Kwang-chih Chang, edited by Robert J. Braidwood and Gordon R. Willey, China (Courses Toward Urban Life), Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 184

    Another reason Jaeschke did not withdraw immediately was that Heyking felt the presence of German troops at Jih-chao gave him leverage in his negotiations with the Tsungli Yamen over the Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway.

    1971, John E. Schrecker, Imperialism and Chinese Nationalism, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98

    The report of the excavations at this site was published later in 1976 (Shan-tung-sheng, Tung-hai-yü, and Jih-chao 1976); but prior to the availability of stratigraphical evidence, it seemed fully apparent that the pottery associated with the Jih-chao and Wei-fang areas—where we meet for the first time a high percentage of black wares turned on a fast wheel—represented a phase subsequent to that at Hsi-hsia-hou.

    1983, Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, “The Relationship of the Painted Pottery and Lung-shan Cultures”, in David N. Keightley, editor, The Origins of Chinese Civilization, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 199

Origin

  1. Mandarin日照
  2. EnglishJih-chao

From Mandarin 日照 (Rìzhào), Wade–Giles romanization: Jih⁴-chao⁴.

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