Jo-ch'iang

These particulars concerning the Jo-ch'iang are mostly stated in the main account:...The fact of bordering on Cer-cen and its southern neighbour may imply that the later Vāshshahri, between Charkhlik and Cer-cen, was originally a Jo-ch'iang station. The extension of the Jo-ch'iang along the whole hinterland south of the mountains is displayed in old Chinese maps also and in that accompanying Professor Herrmann's Die Seidenstrassen.

1944 July, F. W. Thomas, “The Early Population of Lou-lan-Shan-shan”, in Journal of the Greater India Society, volume XI, number 2, →OCLC, page 55

The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang 若羌 county), Ni-ya 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar.

1998, Angela Sheng, “Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD”, in Asia Major, volume 11, number 2, Academia Sinica, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 121