Shao-hsing

See also: Shaohsing

English

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

Etymology

From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 紹興 (Shao⁴-hsing¹).

Pronunciation

• enPR: shouʹshǐngʹ

Proper noun

Shao-hsing

1. Alternative form of Shaoxing
   • 1868, Henry Moule, A Narrative of the Conversion of a Chinese Physician‎^[2], 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.

   • 1891, Stephen W. Bushell, “Description of Modern Ware.”, in Description of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain; Being a Translation of the Tʽao shuo 陶說‎^[3], Clarendon Press, published 1910, →OCLC, page 16:

     Porcelain painted in blue and white, and also that decorated with the deep blue monochrome glaze, both require this blue. It is obtained from the province of Chêkiang, being found on several mountains within the two prefectures of Shao-hsing and Chin-hua.

   • 1962, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China Aspects of Social Mobility, 1368-1911‎^[4], 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^[5], 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^[6], →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^[7], 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^[8], 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."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shao-hsing.

Translations

Shaoxing — see Shaoxing

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Shaohing or Shao-hsing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1745, column 1
• “Shao-hsing”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Shao-hsing”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Shao-hsing” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.