Meaning of Ch'ao-chou | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“It is humbly noted that during July Your officer heard rumors that in the Ch‘ao-chou-Swatow area there was an English barbarian, Su-li-wan,¹ pretending to be in charge of customs and in collusion with local gangsters, squatting there and fraudulently collecting customs. Notice⟳ was sent the Kwangtung governor general and governor and the Canton customs superintendent to prohibit this entirely. Now a communication is received from the acting governor general of Kwangtung [sic] Lao Ch‘ung-kuang, regarding the collection of likin for military supplies at Ch‘ao-chou and Swatow, that he has received a report⟳ from his deputy Yi En-heng that there is a foreign merchant, Sha-li-yün, who has helped detect⟳ smuggling and is quite rigorous.”

“Upon the accession in 847 of Hsüan (Sywen) Tsung, who gradually restored the monasteries of the realm, he was sent off to Ch’ao-chou in the footsteps of Han Yü, then, in the following year, moved on to endure the greater rigors of Yai-chou.”

“Best known was the seagoing trader out of Chao’an (Ch’ao-chou) in northeastern Guangdong (Kwangtung) that worked along the coast, some going to Southeast Asia.”

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