Ch'ao-hsien

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 朝鮮 / 朝鲜 Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻao-hsien.

Proper noun

Ch'ao-hsien

Alternative form of Chaoxian.
- 1963, “Periods”, in A Short History of Korea‎^[1], →OCLC, page 1:
  The period of the Lo-lang Province and the Three Hans, which followed the Ancient Ch’ao-hsien Kingdoms, goes back some 2,000 years. To be exact, it was in 108 B.C. that Wu-ti, the famous Emperor of Han, defeated Wei You-ch’ü, a grandson of Wei Man, captured the Korean Peninsula and governed it by dividing it into four provinces.
- 1965, A. P. Okladnikov, “From Stone to Metal”, in Henry N. Michael, editor, The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R.‎^[2], University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, page 161:
  According to an ancient legend, immediately after the fall of the Shang-Yin Dynasty in 1122 B.C., one of its members, Prince Ch’i Tz’ǔ, fled to the east and afterwards founded there the new state of Ch’ao-hsien (Choson—Korea).
- 1974, Michael Loewe, edited by Frank A. Kierman, Jr. and John K. Fairbank, Chinese Ways in Warfare‎^[3], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 74:
  In 109-108 B.C. two expeditions were sent against Ch’ao-hsien (in the present Korea), and four commanderies were founded there in 108; at the same time Han forces had been penetrating more deeply into the southwest, where I-chou commandery was established in 109.
- 2006 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, “Hereditary House 8”, in Zhenjun Zhang, transl., edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records‎^[4], volume V.1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 276:
  ⁹⁵For Ch’ao-hsien, "Cheng-yi" says, "K’uo-ti chih 括地志 says, 'Kao-li's 高麗 P’ing-jang 平壤 City, originally the governing site/city of Chien 儉, the Prince of Yüeh-lang 樂浪 Prefecture of the Han. It was ancient Ch’ao-hsien.'"
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ao-hsien.