Ch'in-chou

See also: Chin-chou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 秦州 (Qínzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻin²-chou¹.

Proper noun

Ch'in-chou

1. Alternative form of Qinzhou
   • 1969, Michael Sullivan, The Cave Temples of Maichishan‎^[1], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:

     A broken stone tablet found in Cave 127 records that, some time between 503 and 516, the Loyang monk Fa-sheng came and commissioned the carving out of a Buddha niche. According to an inscription in Cave 166, a Buddha image was commissioned by the military commander and prefect of Ch'in-chou (modern T'ian-shui) at about the same time.

   • 1971, Albert Richard Davis, “The Years of Fullness”, in Tu Fu‎^[2], Twayne Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:

     Once more he was beginning to talk of hermitage, and he took his family first to Ch’in-chou (modern T’ien-shui, Kansu) more than three hundred miles west of Hua-chou.

   • 1994, Herbert Franke, Denis Twitchett, The Cambridge History of China‎^[3], volume 6, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 172:

     Backed by the thirteen Che-lung tribes, another group associated with Liang-chou, P'an-lo-chih's elevation to the leadership of Liu-ku probably resulted from the support of the Sung authorities in Ch'in-chou (modern T'ien-shui, Kansu), who may well have viewed him as a stronger deterrent to Li Chi-ch'ien than his predecessor had been.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'in-chou.