Tan-chou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 儋州 (Dānzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-chou¹.

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Tan-chou

  1. Alternative form of Danzhou
    • 1965, Burton Watson, transl., Su Tung-p'o: Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet, University of Columbia Press, →OCLC, page 130:
      The year before, the poet had been ordered to leave Hui-chou, where he had just settled down in his new house, and proceed to Tan-chou on the west side of Hainan Island in the South China Sea.
    • 1994, Beata Grant, Mount Lu Revisited, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:
      He left his remaining family in Hui-chou and proceeded to Tan-chou in Hai-nan accompanied only by his son Su Kuo.

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