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chained_bear commented on the word guosuo
"According to the law of the Han dynasty, which drew on even earlier precedents, anyone going through a checkpoint, on land or by water, needed a travel pass, called a guosuo (literally 'passing through a place')."
--Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 17
December 30, 2016