Chang-chou

See also: chàngchóu and Ch'ang-chou

English

Map including CHANG-CHOU (ZHANGZHOU) (DMA, 1996)

Etymology

From Mandarin 漳州 (Zhāngzhōu), Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chou¹.

Proper noun

Chang-chou

1. Alternative form of Zhangzhou
   • 1972, Evelyn Sakakida Rawski, Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China‎^[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

     In Chang-p’u county (Chang-chou prefecture), for example, a gazetteer records 1.475 tou of seed per mou were used, while in Hai-ch’eng, its neighbor to the east, a figure of 1.2 tou of seed per mou is noted.

   • 1981, Huang Shu-min, Agricultural Degradation Changing Community Systems in Rural Taiwan‎^[3], University Press of America, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 89:

     Now, with one or two bottles of liquor, I can order a Taipei person to kill another. Why should I care: Most of the Taipei people are Chang-chou people, and we southerners are mainly Ch'uan'chou^{[sic – meaning Ch'uan-chou]} people."

   • 2003, Tu Cheng-sheng, translated by Paul Cooper, Ilha Formosa: the Emergence of Taiwan on the World Scene in the 17th Century‎^[4], →OCLC, →OL, page 27:

     After Li Tan's death in 1625, Hsu Hsin-su (許心素), leader of the Chang-chou people dwelling in and around the city of Hsia-men (廈門, or Amoy), emerged as his successor.

   • 2016, “The Philippines in Dong Xi Yang Kao”, in Tulay‎^[5], →ISSN , →OCLC, page 9:

     3. Since this country was near Chang-chou (Zhang's native city), the Chinese trade vessels often went there.

Translations

Zhangzhou — see Zhangzhou

Further reading

• “Chang-chou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Chang-chou”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Chang-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.