Ch'ao-shan

See also: Chaoshan, cháoshān, Cháoshàn, and cháoshàn

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 潮汕 (Cháoshàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻao²-shan⁴.

Proper noun

Ch'ao-shan

1. Alternative form of Chaoshan
   • 1963 February [1962 December 9], “South China College of Agriculture Succeeds in Controlling Insects”, in Scientific Information Report Chinese Science, number 19, Washington, D.C.: Foreign Documents Division, CIA, sourced from Canton, Chung-kuo Hsin-wen, pp 5-6, →OCLC, page 1:

     He and other teachers have made a summation of peasant experience and have compiled a complete set of cultivation techniques to guard against insect damage, they have also discovered a chemical agent which kills the incertellus Walker. In the past 2 years, the peasants of the Ch'ao-shan area and San-chiao Chou on the Pearl River have used these measures with marked success.

   • 1979, Chi-Keung Leung, Ngok Lee, China, Development and Challenge: Historical experiences and Marxism, Maoism, and Politics‎^[1], →OCLC, page 98:

     As the depression in the sugar trade deepened year after year, a considerable portion of the existing sugarcane acreage, particularly in the Ch'ao-shan region, was permanently turned to the cultivation of vegetables.

   • [1998, Redefining History: Ghosts, Spirits, and Human Society in Pʻu Sung-ling's World, 1640-1715‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 200–201:

     In the south, in the Ch'ao-Shan (Ch'ao-an-Shan-t'ou) region of eastern Kwangtung[...]]

Translations

Chaoshan — see Chaoshan