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Most of the large villages and walled towns of Kiangsu and Chekiang stand on the canals which serve as the highway of the two provinces.[…]What memories the names call up: Kashing, and Huchow, Dongsi, Teching, and Pi U. When we came to them by day the boatmen were on the watch, poles in hand, and we children were warned not to get in the way.

1931 January 16, “A Visit to China's Venice”, in North Borneo Herald, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2020

A process for promoting the artificial formation of pearls in the Chinese river mussels is carried on at Teching in Chekiang; pellets of clay and mother-of-pearl, or small images of Buddha, are introduced into the shell of the bivalve, and in course of time, become coated with nacre.

1933, Charles Alfred Speed Williams, Manual of Chinese Products, Peiping: Kwang Yuen Press, page 223

Chiaoli Village outside the county town of Teching in Chekiang province is the home of 55 peasant families. This part of the country, with its good soil and abundant produce, has always been called the “land of fish and rice”.

1974 January, Staff Reporters, “Chiaoli Village Takes the Collective Road”, in Some Basic Facts About China, China Reconstructs, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2023, page 9