Ch'ao-shan
Ch'ao-shan is the alternative form of Chaoshan.
Meaning of Chaoshan
Proper noun
Chaoshan
- A region in eastern Guangdong, China, home of the Swatow, Jieyang and Teochew people. Historically composed of 8 counties belonging to the department of Chaozhou (潮州府), today it is equivalent to the 3 cities of Chaozhou, Shantou, and Jieyang.
- The extant scholarship on Sinophone Thai literature attributes the uniqueness of such works as Stormy Yaowarat Road to three aspects of their evocation of Teochew: their use of the Chaoyang-Swatow (Chaoshan) dialect of Teochew (particularly in the spoken dialogues of the text), their depiction of...2015, Brian C. Bernards, Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180
- Synonyms:
- Teoswa
Origin of Ch'ao-shan
From Mandarin 潮汕 (Cháoshàn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻao²-shan⁴.
Questions about Ch'ao-shan
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- Ch'ao-shan is the alternative form of Chaoshan.
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