Zizhong

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資中资中 (Zīzhōng, literally middle reaches of the Tuo River in Zi Prefecture (Sichuan)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒʊŋ/, enPR: dzûʹjo͝ongʹ[1]

Proper noun

Zizhong

  1. A county of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
    • [1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141:
      There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies:
      Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period.
      ]
    • 1992, Julia C. Lin, transl., Women of the Red Plain: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry, Penguin Books, Chinese Literature Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:
      Born in Zizhong County of Sichuan Province, Fu is one of the promising new women poets appearing on the literary scene in recent years.
    • 2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World:
      For example, Yucheng in nearby Shanxi Province has a serious H.I.V. epidemic related to blood selling, the government press has reported. More surprising, so does Zizhong in Sichuan Province, more than 500 miles from Henan.

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References

  1. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tzechung or Tzu-chung”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1971, column 2

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