Jo-ch'iang

English

ERH-CH'IANG (CHARKHLIK) (JO-CHʻIANG) (ATC, 1971)

Etymology

From Mandarin 婼羌 Wade–Giles romanization: Jo⁴-chʻiang¹.

Proper noun

Jo-ch'iang

1. Alternative form of Ruoqiang
   • 1944 July, F. W. Thomas, “The Early Population of Lou-lan-Shan-shan”, in Journal of the Greater India Society‎^[1], volume XI, number 2, →OCLC, page 55:

     These particulars concerning the Jo-ch'iang are mostly stated in the main account:...The fact of bordering on Cer-cen and its southern neighbour may imply that the later Vāshshahri, between Charkhlik and Cer-cen, was originally a Jo-ch'iang station. The extension of the Jo-ch'iang along the whole hinterland south of the mountains is displayed in old Chinese maps also and in that accompanying Professor Herrmann's Die Seidenstrassen.

   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎^[2], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:

     Sinkiang is linked with Tibet by the Sinkiang-Tibet Highway, which begins at Jo-chʻiang (Charkhlik) in southern Sinkiang.

   • 1998, Angela Sheng, “Innovations in Textile Techniques on China's Northwest Frontier, 500—700 AD”, in Asia Major‎^[3], volume 11, number 2, Academia Sinica, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 121:

     The southern route, seemingly preferred by the Chinese, skirted the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains on the southern edge of the Tarim Basin. It, too, began at Tun-huang, with stops at Miran 米蘭 (in present-day Jo-chʻiang 若羌 county), Ni-ya 尼雅 (in present-day Min-feng 民豐 county), Khotan, Yarkand, and continued to Kashgar.

Translations

Ruoqiang — see Ruoqiang