Jiaozuo

• Chiao-tso (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò).

Jiaozuo

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
   • [1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan‎, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:

     Work on the new railroad that thrust its way up onto the Shangtang: Plateau from the old railhead at the huge coalmine of Chiaotso in the Yellow River Valley went on for three years.]

   • [1987, Peter Stursberg, “Dragon Bones”, in The Golden Hope: Christians in China‎, Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:

     Luttrell gave up missionary work in 1924 to become a welfare officer with the Peking Syndicate’s coal mine at Chiaotso in North Honan.⁴
     As a missionary, Luttrell had been stattoned at Chiaotso and got to know the British managers and engineers who were in charge of operations there.]

   • 2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 05 April 2016‎:

     Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.

• Jiaozuo, Chiaotso, Chiao-tso at Google Ngram Viewer
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiaozuo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 2