"Tsao-yang" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 棗陽／枣阳 (Zǎoyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsao³-yang².",
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          "ref": "1959, Cyril Birch, transl., Stories from a Ming Collection, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46",
          "text": "Of this story I will show you first one personage only, Chiang Te, known as Hsing-ko, of Tsao-yang in the prefecture of Hsiang-yang, in the province of Hu-kuang.",
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          "ref": "1973, Jen Yu-wen, “Second Northern Expedition (1861-1868)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 473",
          "text": "Those on the northerly route reached Ning-shan on February 16th, were joined there by a surviving group of Shih Ta-k’ai’s expeditionary soldiers under Cheng Chung-ho, and on March 26th converged at Nei-hsiang as planned with Ma Jung-ho’s army from the southerly route. Ch’en Ta-hsi’s Nien army, which had returned to Honan in the spring of 1863, also came to Nei-hsiang soon thereafter, at which point the entire force proceeded to Tsao-yang in Hupeh.",
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          "ref": "1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111",
          "text": "Ts'ai Lun lived for another thirteen years after his great invention. Intrigues at court then drove him to despair, and he committed suicide by swallowing poison. It is said that he first manufactured paper from fishing nets by the side of a pool near the town of Tsao-yang in Hupeh Province; and his art is hereditary among the people of that district.",
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          "ref": "1986, Jeanne Kelly, transl., The Pearl Shirt Reencountered (Traditional Chinese Stories), Cheng & Tsui Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 285",
          "text": "Finally, in a state of exasperation, Ch'en hastily gathered up his money and, taking along a young servant, set off again [by boat] to Hsiang-yang. As he approached Tsao-yang, he was suddenly set upon by a band of robbers who made off with his entire capital and murdered his servant as well.",
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          "ref": "[2013, Brian L. Evans, The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China, pages 58–59",
          "text": "Late one night in Fancheng, the gatekeeper roused Ronning to tell him that bandits had taken the city of Tsao Yang (Zaoyang) to the northeast, wounding two missionaries in their attack....Driving on through the villages, they eventually reached Tsao Yang, only to find that the missionaries had been rescued and sent to the Hsiang yang hospital.]",
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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 棗陽／枣阳 (Zǎoyáng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tsao³-yang².",
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