Chaoking
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Chaoking
- Alternative form of Zhaoqing
- 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, page 324:
- After the taking of Canton, all the adjacent Cities and Places ſent Embaſſadours to the Vice-roys with promiſes to ſubmit, if they might have their Lives ſaved ; which was freely granted to them. Then the Vice-roy marched with his Army to the City Chaoking, where the Emperour Jungliens kept his Court at that time; who hearing of his coming, durſt not ſtay for him, but left the City and Province, and fled to that of the Dominion of Quangſi, but being narrowly and cloſely purſued, he was neceſſitated to betake himſelf to the Confines of the Kingdom of Tungking, where what became of him is not ſince that time certainly known.
- 1901, Edward Harper Parker, China: Her History, Diplomacy and Commerce from the Earliest Times to the Present Day[2], →OCLC, →OL, page 166:
- The next Viceroyalty in tacit rank is that of the Two Kwang. Each Governor has his Treasurer and Judge, but this Viceroy, who was at Chaoking (locally pronounced Shiuheng) until the Taiping rebellion, now resides with the Governor of Kwang Tung at Canton (itself a Portuguese corruption of the provincial name).
- 2001, Michael Walsh, editor, Dictionary of Christian Biography[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 284:
- Cattaneo, Lazzaro Jesuit missionary, born Sarzana near Genoa, 1560, died Hangchow, 16 January 1640. He entered the Society of Jesus at Rome in 1581; was in Goa in 1588 as superior of the Malabar coast mission. By 1593 he was in Macao, from where he went to Chaoking to study Chinese with Matteo Ricci, and accompanied him to Peking in 1598.