Ch'üan-chou

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English

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 泉州 (Quánzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻüan²-chou¹.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: chə-wänʹjōʹ

Proper noun

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Ch'üan-chou

  1. Alternative form of Quanzhou
    • 1965, “The Bridge of Chʻüan-chou”, in Wolfram Eberhard, editor, Folktales of China[2], Revised edition, University of Chicago Press, page 103:
      The Loyang bridge lies twenty miles outside the east gate of Chʻüan-chou, just on the borders of the district.
    • 1966, Luce Boulnois, translated by Dennis Chamberlin, The Silk Road[3], London, →OCLC, page 208:
      We know that Italians were trading in the Black Sea ports, and the Arabs in the ports of southern China- in Fu-chien and Kuang-tung. Zayton (Ch'üan-chou in Fu-chien?) is mentioned by Marco Polo as 'the greatest port in the world'.
    • 1977, Sarasin Viraphol, Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese trade, 1652-1853[4], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40:
      In spite of the Manchu-imposed ban on overseas travel and trade, the Siamese tributary trade must have been profitable enough for a good many Chinese to handle it. Consequently, the early Chinese settlers in Siam were principally merchants from Chʻüan-chou prefecture in southern Fukien and Canton in Kwangtung, who were connected with the Siamese tributary trade.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'üan-chou.

Translations

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References

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  1. ^ Quanzhou, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’üan-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 348:
    Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: [] (1) the Post Office system, [] (2) the Wade-Giles system, [] shown after the main entry [] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses [] Chüanchow (Ch'üan-chou, Quanzhou), Fukien Province

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