Meaning of Shao-hsing | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“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.”

“Porcelain painted in blue and white, and also that decorated with the deep blue monochrome glaze, both require this blue. It is obtained from the province of Chêkiang, being found on several mountains within the two prefectures of Shao-hsing and Chin-hua.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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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