Zhapu
Zhapu proper noun: 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.
Proper noun
Zhapu
- 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.
- 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.1990, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Orphan Warriors: Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69
- 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...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...
Forms of Zhapu
| alternative form | Chapu |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Cha-pu |
| alternative form | Chapoo |
Origin of Zhapu
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 乍浦 (Zhàpǔ).
Questions about Zhapu
- What does Zhapu mean?
- Zhapu means 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.
- What part of speech is Zhapu?
- Zhapu is a proper noun.
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