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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 855 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAPU , formerly an important maritime See also:

town of See also:China, in the See also:province of Cheh-kiang, 5o m. N.W. of Chen-See also:hai, situated in one of the richest and best cultivated districts in the See also:country. It is the See also:port of Hang-chow, with which it has See also:good See also:canal communication, and it was formerly the only See also:Chinese port trading with See also:Japan. The town has a See also:circuit of about 5 M. exclusive of the suburbs that See also:lie along the See also:beach; and the Tatar See also:quarter is separated from the See also:rest by a See also:wall. It was captured and much injured by the See also:British force in 1842, but was abandoned immediately after the engagement. The See also:sea around it has now silted up, though in the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century it was accessible to the See also:light-See also:draught See also:ships of the British See also:fleet.

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