Shang-jao

From Mandarin 上饒／上饶 (Shàngráo), Wade–Giles romanization: Shang⁴-jao².[1]

Shang-jao

1. Alternative form of Shangrao
   • 1979, James C. Hefley, Marti Hefley, By Their Blood‎, mott media, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

     After Pearl Harbor the Japanese ordered his arrest. But he had fled to Shang-jao in Kiangsi Province from which he and four Chinese preachers sustained national churches for several months. Because Shang-jao was still in "free" territory, he became a conduit for American funds sent to missionaries stranded in Shanghai.

   • 1991, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong, Words and Images : Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting‎, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:

     Wu Yüeh, a distant relative of Wang An-shih 王安石 (1021-86), was active from the late years of Hui-tsung's reign into Kao-tsung's, serving his last post as grand custodian in Shang-jao, Kiangsi.

   • 1993, Judith Magee Boltz, “Not by the Seal of Office Alone: New Weapons in Battles with the Supernatural”, in Religion and Society in T'ang and Sung China‎, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 247:

     A native of Le-p'ing (Kiangsi), for example, was on his way to the capital to take up his post as gate guardian of the Court of Judicial Review when he stopped with his maidservant to pray for good fortune at an unidentified shrine of Shang-jao (Kiangsi).