Quzhou

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ü-chou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 衢州 (Qúzhōu).

Quzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
   • [1901, “Native Account of the Situation”, in The Boxer Rising: A History of the Boxer Trouble in China‎, 2nd edition, Shanghai Mercury, Ltd., →OCLC, page 60:

     In Chuchow in the south-west of Chekiang, as we learn from a Shaoshing letter, rebel soldiers have, before the arrival of the soldiers sent by the Governor, killed the magistrate of Sian city named Wu.]

   • [1982 May, Grant Maxwell, “Getting on the Map”, in Assignment in Chekiang: 71 Canadians in China, 1902-1954‎, Scarborough, Ontario: Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

     South of Ningpo are Kinhwa and Lishui — the latter known at first as Chuchow, which was field headquarters for Scarboro mission bands. The priests and sisters, and also their thousands of supporters across English-speaking Canada — kept in touch with one another chiefly by the popular Scarboro publication China — soon became acquainted with Lishui/Chuchow and the names of numerous mission stations, among them Lungchuan, Sungyang, Pihu, Tsingtien and Dolu. In 1940 the adjoining region of Kinhwa was added to the Chuchow/Lishui area earlier entrusted to the Scarboro priests.]

   • 2013 July 9, “Pilot of crashed Asiana plane still in Boeing 777 training”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 11 July 2013‎:

     The two dead girls, Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, were friends from the Jiangshan Middle School in Quzhou, in the prosperous eastern coastal province of Zhejiang.

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• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Quzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2559, column 3