Chaoching

See also: Chao-ch'ing

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 肇慶肇庆 (Zhàoqìng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chao⁴-chʻing⁴.

Proper noun

Chaoching

  1. Alternative form of Zhaoqing
    • 1962, George H. Dunne, Generation of Giants: The Story of the Jesuits in China in the last Decades of the Ming Dynasty, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 27:
      Ricci spent six years in Chaoching trying, through patient perseverance against formidable obstacles, to consolidate the newly won position.
    • 1976 December 19, “Armed conflict incidents rise”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
      Anti-Hua posters and slogans appeared in Chaoching County, Kwangtung Province, accusing Hua of violating Mao’s policy and will. Hua was described in the posters as a traitor and usurper. The slogans called for a second “revolution to fight down the Hua gang.”
    • 1993 [1922 June 1], Jennie Ch'en Chieh-ju, quoting Liao Chung-k'ai, edited by Lloyd E. Eastman, Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102:
      3. Ch'en Chiung-ming has promised to come either to Canton or Chaoching, and to order Ip Chu's troops to return to their original stations.

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