Shao-hsing

In the autumn they were reinforced, and moved northward and eastward to the circuit of Ningpo. The great city of Shao-hsing fell in October, and out missionaries there, Mr. B. and Mr. F., were compelled to retire upon Ningpo.

1868, Henry Moule, A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician, page 53

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

Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.

1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, page 253

After a tempestuous and undistinguished government career, a time during which close bonds of friendship formed between Lu Yu and the other two major poets of the late Sung, Fan Ch'eng-ta and Yang Wan-li, Lu Yu retired to spend his last two decades as an increasingly impoverished recluse on a farm at his ancestral village in Shao-hsing.

2002, David Hinton, transl., Mountain Home, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241

When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing.

2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7