Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Shangrao.
Wild Goose Pond is in Kiangsi province near the modern town of Shangjao and was the site of a famous Neo-Confucian academy as well as several important Zen monasteries.
1999, “Book Two: Gathas”, in Red Pine, transl., The Zen Works of Stonehouse: Poems and Talks of a Fourteenth-Century Chinese Hermit, Berkley, CA: Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1222 more examples
And by the time Pearl Harbor came he had so incurred the wrath of the Japanese that the very first day of official war with America they sent a detachment to arrest John Birch. But he escaped, and fled to Shangjao in Kiangsi Province.[...] In January there arrived at Shangjao, after a precarious journey from Shanghai through occupied territory, a baptized native who brought a message from missionaries stranded in that city.
1954, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., “Early Months in China”, in The Life of John Birch: In the Story of One American Boy, the Ordeal of His Age, Western Islands, published 1960, →OCLC, pages 7–8In April 1942, a Chinese peasant in Shangjao took him to a sampan where Lt. Col. James (Jimmie) Doolittle and his crew were hiding. Doolittle had led the first U.S. bombing raid on Japan on April 18.
2004, “Birch, John”, in Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage, 2nd edition, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72, column 1
Origin
From Mandarin 上饒／上饶 (Shàngráo), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang⁴-jao².
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