Zhapu

• Chapu, Cha-pu, Chapoo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ).

Zhapu

1. A town on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.
   • 1990, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World‎, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 89-34963, OCLC 935888699, OL 2212175M, page 69:

     In that year the large Hangzhou garrison was subdivided when a Left Wing (zuo yi) brigade-general was created at Zhapu to oversee the naval garrison on the shores of Pinghu County. Zhapu was the port of Hangzhou.

   • 2021 July 28, “Biden nominates Huawei prosecutor for key Chinese exports position”, in CNBC‎, archived from the original on 29 July 2021, Politics:

     A crane is transferring containers for import and export at Zhapu Port in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, July 13, 2021.