Chiao-tso

English

CHIAO TSO
焦作

Etymology

From Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò) Wade–Giles romanization: Chiao¹-tso⁴.

Proper noun

Chiao-tso

1. Alternative form of Jiaozuo
   • 1953, Basil Gray, Early Chinese Pottery and Porcelain‎^[1], London: Faber and Faber, →OCLC, →OL, page 26:

     Another northern site where large numbers of shards have been found but at present no definite evidence of kilns, is Chiao-tso in Northern Honan, visited by Mr. Orvar Karlbeck in 1934 and in 1943 by Mr. Koyama, who prefers to call it Wu-hsiao, the name of the Department in which it lies.

   • 1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1974: An Annotated Bibliography‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

     The story describes a model coal miner in Chiao-tso, Honan.

   • 1983, Wanda Garnsey, Rewi Alley, “Honan”, in China, Ancient kilns and modern ceramics: A guide to the potteries‎^[3], Australian National University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 20–21:

     Near the T'ai-hang Mountains of Honan, T'ang-yang-yu, now the headquarters of a commune brigade in the municipality of Chiao-tso in Hsiu-wu County, was once the site of a thriving pottery centre in the Northern Sung Dynasty. […] Today in the rugged country out of Chiao-tso there are still some scattered kilns near the old pottery town of T’ang-yang-yu making pots for the farmers in the district.

   • [2006 April, “Obituary of Sarah R. Gottschling”, in McGuinness Funeral Home‎^[4], archived from the original on 2023-04-13‎^[5]:

     Sally was born in Scotland and spent the first 10 years of her childhood in the interior of North China in the town of Chiao Tso. She attended a mission school in China, private school in London and was a 1934 graduate of Woodbury High.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiao-tso.

Translations

Jiaozuo — see Jiaozuo