"Che-chiang" meaning in English

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          "text": "Again, the great majority of Chinese residents on the French and English settlements are Che-chiang and Keang-si refugees who have not paid their proper taxes, and who have fled there since the great collection of the allied troops, and who carry on their business solely by their protection ; and as unless the troops are maintained the people cannot continue to enjoy security, as they are innumerable, I have proposed to divide them into three classes, the first paying five dollars, the second one dollar, the third half a dollar per head, children and women being exempted, and one collection being final.",
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          "ref": "1973, George Kuwayama, Chinese Ceramics: The Heeramaneck Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 9",
          "text": "The earliest form of celadon, the Yüeh ware, was produced in the southeast coastal provinces of Che-chiang and Fu-chien around the time of Christ. This is a high-fired feldspathic ware with brownish-green glazes which range from gray through olive-green to brown. A number of kiln sites have been found — Chiu-yen and Te-ch'ing in Che-chiang, and Nan-tai in Fu-chien.",
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          "text": "Two years later, in 1129, her husband left to take a new post in Che-chiang.",
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          "ref": "1995, Glen Dudbridge, Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi, Cambridge University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2",
          "roman": "3 The county seat stood 140 paces north of the Che-chiang River, and one li west of the meeting waters: Yüan-ho chün-hsein t'u-chih 25.607-8.",
          "text": "This party at the magistrate's residence in T'ung-lu 桐盧 took Place on 15 March 771. They were in the wooded hilly country on the edge of the western Chekiang uplands, at a point where the south-flowing Tung-lu River entered the great tidal stream, then called Che-chiang 浙江, that would flow out to the Bay of Hang-chou some fifty miles to the north-east.³",
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          "ref": "2012, Betty Wong, Jewel of the Kingdom : General Chow Chih and Nationalist China, Trafford Publishing, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 26",
          "text": "Chiang Kai-shek was born on October 31, 1887, in the hamlet of Hsikou (Xikou) in Fenghua county, Che-chiang (Zhejiang) province to an affluent family.",
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