Shao-hsing

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 紹興 (Shao⁴-hsing¹).[1][2]

• enPR: shouʹshǐngʹ

Shao-hsing

1. Alternative form of Shaoxing
   • 1868, Henry Moule, A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician‎, page 53:

     In the autumn they were reinforced, and moved northward and eastward to the circuit of Ningpo. The great city of Shao-hsing fell in October, and out missionaries there, Mr. B. and Mr. F., were compelled to retire upon Ningpo.

   • 1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911‎, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, page 253:

     Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.

   • 1989, Chan, Wing-tsit, Chu Hsi New Studies‎, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, LCCN 89-4799, OCLC 246807084, OL 2186720M, page 21:

     When I was commissioner in Chekiang East, there was a woman in Shao-hsing County who had an affair with the son of her late husband's sister.

   • 2002, David Hinton, transl., Mountain Home‎, →ISBN, OCLC 51639996, OL 8000039M, page 241:

     After a tempestuous and undistinguished government career, a time during which close bonds of friendship formed between Lu Yu and the other two major poets of the late Sung, Fan Ch'eng-ta and Yang Wan-li, Lu Yu retired to spend his last two decades as an increasingly impoverished recluse on a farm at his ancestral village in Shao-hsing.

   • 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei‎, Scribner, →ISBN, LCCN 2002073343, OCLC 248866825, page 7:

     When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing.

   • 2010, Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel‎, Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, page 105:

     So that's when we start to make menus. I say, "At night, I'm dreaming menus. Like summer. First course: lime ceviche, try albacore."
     He says, "Second course: drunken chicken in Shao-hsing wine."

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