Zichang
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See also: Zǐcháng
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子長/子长 (Zǐcháng, literally “Zichang, name of 謝子長 (Xie Zichang)”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Zichang
- A county-level city in Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.
- [1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Hsu T’e-li”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series)[1], volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 364, column 2:
- By 1940 Hsu was identified as a deputy director of the Party Central Committee's Propaganda Department, a post he was to hold for about two decades. From late in the next year until 1946, he also served as a representative from An-ting (now Tzu-ch’ang) hsien, located north of Yenan, in the Second Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government.]
- [1976, Wilfred Burchett, “In Case of War”, in China: The Quality of Life[2], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:
- 'Continuing our tour, we arrived at night at Tzuchang, north of Yenan in Shensi province. Before turning in we had a look around. It was bright moonlight and all around the sides of the valley flames of charcoal-burning and iron-smelting leaped up.]
Translations
[edit]county-level city
Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3567, column 1
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