Citations:Shao-hsing

English citations of Shao-hsing

Map including SHAO-HSING (SHAOHING) 紹興 (AMS, 1954)

• 1868, Henry Moule, A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician‎^[1], page 53:

  In the autumn they were reinforced, and moved northward and eastward to the circuit of Ningpo. The great city of Shao-hsing fell in October, and out missionaries there, Mr. B. and Mr. F., were compelled to retire upon Ningpo.

• 1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911‎^[2], John Wiley & Sons, Inc, page 253:

  Over-congestion and limited resources had forced many Shao-hsing and Ning-po people to earn their livings elsewhere, a phenomenon which deeply struck a scholar-official of Shanghai in the sixteenth century.

• 1989, Wing-tsit Chan, Chu Hsi New Studies‎^[3], University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 21:

  When I was commissioner in Chekiang East, there was a woman in Shao-hsing County who had an affair with the son of her late husband's sister.

• 2002, David Hinton, transl., Mountain Home‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 241:

  After a tempestuous and undistinguished government career, a time during which close bonds of friendship formed between Lu Yu and the other two major poets of the late Sung, Fan Ch'eng-ta and Yang Wan-li, Lu Yu retired to spend his last two decades as an increasingly impoverished recluse on a farm at his ancestral village in Shao-hsing.

• 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei‎^[5], Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7:

  When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing.

• 2010, Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel‎^[6], Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, page 105:

  So that's when we start to make menus. I say, "At night, I'm dreaming menus. Like summer. First course: lime ceviche, try albacore."
  He says, "Second course: drunken chicken in Shao-hsing wine."