Che-chiang

English

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 浙江 (Zhè Jiāng, literally “crooked river”): Chê⁴-chiang¹; from a former name of the Qiantang River.

Proper noun

Che-chiang

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Zhejiang
   • 1875 [1862 July 5], The Taoutae Woo to Consul Medhurst (The Treaty Rights of the Foreign Merchant, and the Transit-System in China)‎^[1], page 60:

     Again, the great majority of Chinese residents on the French and English settlements are Che-chiang and Keang-si refugees who have not paid their proper taxes, and who have fled there since the great collection of the allied troops, and who carry on their business solely by their protection ; and as unless the troops are maintained the people cannot continue to enjoy security, as they are innumerable, I have proposed to divide them into three classes, the first paying five dollars, the second one dollar, the third half a dollar per head, children and women being exempted, and one collection being final.

   • 1973, George Kuwayama, Chinese Ceramics: The Heeramaneck Collection‎^[2], Los Angeles County Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9:

     The earliest form of celadon, the Yüeh ware, was produced in the southeast coastal provinces of Che-chiang and Fu-chien around the time of Christ. This is a high-fired feldspathic ware with brownish-green glazes which range from gray through olive-green to brown. A number of kiln sites have been found — Chiu-yen and Te-ch'ing in Che-chiang, and Nan-tai in Fu-chien.

   • 1992, Aliki Barnstone, Willis Barnstone, editors, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now‎^[3], Schocken Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133:

     Two years later, in 1129, her husband left to take a new post in Che-chiang.

   • 1995, Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi‎^[4], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

     This party at the magistrate's residence in T'ung-lu 桐盧 took Place on 15 March 771. They were in the wooded hilly country on the edge of the western Chekiang uplands, at a point where the south-flowing Tung-lu River entered the great tidal stream, then called Che-chiang 浙江, that would flow out to the Bay of Hang-chou some fifty miles to the north-east.³

     3 The county seat stood 140 paces north of the Che-chiang River, and one li west of the meeting waters: Yüan-ho chün-hsein t'u-chih 25.607-8.

   • 2012, Betty Wong, Jewel of the Kingdom : General Chow Chih and Nationalist China‎^[5], Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 26:

     Chiang Kai-shek was born on October 31, 1887, in the hamlet of Hsikou (Xikou) in Fenghua county, Che-chiang (Zhejiang) province to an affluent family.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Che-chiang.

Translations

Zhejiang — see Zhejiang

Further reading

• “Che-chiang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Che-chiang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.