Meaning of Ch'ang-chou | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

Examples

“The President of the Imperial Academy recommended him for the title of Censor (諫官), but Wang An-shih refused to receive⟳ it, giving as a reason⟳ that his grandmother was sick and old, and he wanted to serve⟳ her. But at once he was made Department Magistrate (知州) of Chʻang-chou.”

“Liang Ch’ang is a hill in Chin-t’an near the borders of Kü-jung about fifty miles west of Ch’ang-chou in Kiangsu Province.”

“Wu Kʻuan, for example, who won the highest honors in the metropolitan and palace examination of 1472 and became president of the Board⟳ of Rites, was from an artisan family of Ch’ang-chou County, part of Su-chou in southern Kiangsu.”

“The Chung Wang claimed that the imperialists lost 10,000 men at Tan-yang, and, while such numbers were invariably exaggerated by both sides during the rebellion, the victory did open⟳ the way to the town of Ch'ang-chou, the first vital position on the line to Soochow.”

“Further, he suggested strategies and gave counsel to his superiors at Soochow and Ch'ang-chou. (The Governor-General resided temporarily in Ch'ang-chou after the Taiping capture⟳ of Nanking in 1853.)”

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