Zhapu

See also: Zhàpǔ

English

Alternative forms

• Chapu, Cha-pu, Chapoo

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jäʹpo͞oʹ

Proper noun

Zhapu

1. A town in Pinghu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, on the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay and important under the Qing as a port and military garrison.
   • 1990, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World‎^[2], Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:

     In that year the large Hangzhou garrison was subdivided when a Left Wing (zuo yi) brigade-general was created at Zhapu to oversee the naval garrison on the shores of Pinghu County. Zhapu was the port of Hangzhou.

   • 2013, Christine Moll-Murata, Ulrich Theobald, “Military employment in Qing dynsaty China”, in Erik-Jan Zürcher, editor, Fighting for a Living: A Comparative History of Military Labour 1500-2000‎^[3], Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 361:

     Scholarly consensus exists that, by the time of the Taiping rebellion, both were in bad shape, poorly equipped, with low morale - with the qualification made by Crossley in Orphan Warriors that the British were amazed at the fighting spirit which the Manchus displayed during the attack on the garrison of Zhapu near Shanghai in an episode of the First Opium War.

   • 2021 July 28, “Biden nominates Huawei prosecutor for key Chinese exports position”, in CNBC‎^[4], archived from the original on 29 July 2021, Politics‎^[5]:

     A crane is transferring containers for import and export at Zhapu Port in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, China, July 13, 2021.

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乍浦 (zh) (Zhàpǔ)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhapu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 3