Chekiangese
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Chekiangese (plural Chekiangese)
- Alternative form of Zhejiangese (“a native or inhabitant of Zhejiang (Chekiang), China”)
- 1971, Pichon Pei Yung Loh, The early Chiang Kai-shek: A STUDY OF HIS PERSONALITY AND POLITICS, 1887-1924[1], Columbia University Press, page 138:
- Like Chou, Shao Yüan-ch'ung was from Chekiang. The three Chekiangese had had a long-standing association going back to the days of Chiang's association with Ch'en Ch'i-mei.
- 2000, Stella Dong, Shanghai The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City[2], HarperCollins, page 85:
- In Shanghai, where the alliance had established a central China bureau only three months earlier, its leader was Chen Chi-mei, a thirty-four-year-old Chekiangese who had studied police and military methods in Tokyo.