Chao-t'ung

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 昭通 (Zhāotōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chao¹-tʻung¹.

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Chao-t'ung

  1. Alternative form of Zhaotong
    • 1897, Alexander Hosie, “Preface to the Second Edition”, in Three Years in Western China[1], 2nd edition, London: George Philip & Son, →OCLC, →OL, page xvii:
      Although Kuei-chow drew seven piculs of prepared tobacco, and Chao-t’ung, the northern prefecture of Yün-nan, took four pieces of T cloths and 14½ piculs of tobacco from Mêng-tzŭ, I see no reason to alter what I wrote eight years ago in the concluding paragraph of Chapter XII.
    • 1943, L. Carrington Goodrich, A Short History of the Chinese People[2], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, →OL, page 60:
      There are also indications that Buddhism appeared in south China; a stone sculpture thought to have served as a pedestal for Buddhist figures and bearing a date equivalent to A.D. 83 was discovered at Chao-t’ung in Yunnan in 1937.
    • 1988, Jean-Paul Wiest, Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955[3], M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 367:
      Farther north, Sister Moira Riehl headed a group of four Sisters who worked in the Catholic hospital of Chao-t'ung run by the Yugoslavian School Sisters of St. Francis.

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