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
- 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.
Translations
References
- 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
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zizhong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3570, column 3
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