So-ch'e

See also: soche, sochę, and Soche

English

Map including SO-CH'E (YARKAND) (AMS, 1966)

Etymology

From Mandarin 莎車／莎车 (Suōchē), Wade–Giles romanization: So¹-chʻê¹.

Proper noun

So-ch'e

1. Synonym of Yarkant.
   • 1944, Martin R. Norins, “Reconstruction”, in Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎^[1], John Day Company, →OCLC, page 109:

     Flourishing cotton fields abound also at So-ch'e, Maralbashi (Pa-ch'u), Shan-shan, Su-lo, and Korla. […]
     Around a million catties of raw silk reportedly is produced each year from Khotan, Yarkand (So-ch'e), and Su-lo acreage, and a considerable increase is expected; for the provincial Reconstruction Commission has been importing improved silkworm eggs and extending sericulture plots.

   • 1964, William Samolin, East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century‎^[2], The Hague: Mouton & Co, →OCLC, →OL, pages 27, 86:

     During this period the Hsiung-nu were weak and failed to assert their power in the region. The more powerful states, Shan-shan (75) in the Lop region, So-ch’e (76) (Yarqand) and Yü-t’ien (77) (Khotan) had begun to absorb their lesser neighbors.

     (75) 鄯善
     (76) 莎車
     (77) 于寘

   • 1964, T. SD., “YARKAND”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[3], volume 23, →OCLC, page 877, column 2:

     Upon emerging from the Kunlun gorges, the Yarkand loses the characteristics of a raging mountain torrent and spreads out in many branches over an alluvial fan to irrigate the Yarkand oasis. The oasis, one of the largest in Sinkiang, contains the towns of Yarkand (So-ch’e) and Tse-p’u (Posgam). Upon leaving the Yarkand oasis, the river flows north past Mai-kai-t’i (Merket-Bazar) and then northeast around the eastern margins of the Takla Makan desert. South of the Aksu oasis it joins the Kashgar, Aksu and Khotan rivers to form the Tarim.

   • 2009, Gordon Laird, The Price of a Bargain‎^[4], McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 195:

     On the south side of the Taklimakan Desert stands a Central Asian oasis, the edge of a dusty city that was once the centre of a great Buddhist kingdom. As early as the second century A.D., Yarkant (Suoju, Shache, or So-ch'e in Chinese) was responsible for ideas and texts that changed the Chinese empire.

Translations

Shache — see Shache

Anagrams

• CHOSE, Choes, HCEOs, choes, chose, echos, oches