Shi-jia-zhuang

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Proper noun

Shi-jia-zhuang

  1. (rare) Alternative form of Shijiazhuang
    • 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 19, 36:
      Guangzhou marked the real beginning of our visit. From there we journeyed to thirteen other cities: Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Xian, Yenan, Shi-jia-zhuang, Peking, Tangshan, Shenyang, Anshan, Tianjin, Changsha, and Shaoshan.* []
      It was late April when we visited the Zhao Ling Pu Commune, just north of Shi-jia-zhuang, Hebei Province. With our hosts we sipped tea and munched dry-roasted peanuts — a delicious example of the commune’s production.
    • 1975, Ho Qi-fang, “Xi-Hui Village”, in The Chinese Literary Scene: A Writer's Visit to the People's Republic, Penguin Books, published 1976, →OCLC, page 171:
      When I first arrived here the Japanese had
      surrendered,
      And Shi-jia-zhuang was freed from Chiang
      Kai-shek’s army. []
      The enemy in Peking, keep them from marching
      on Shi-jia-zhuang.
    • 1981, Encyclopedia Britannica, volume IX, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 144, 145:
      Shih-chia-chuang, Pin-yin romanization SHI-JIA-ZHUANG, a city in west central Hopeh Province (sheng), China, a subprovincial-level municipality, an administrative centre of the Shih-chia-chuang Area ti-ch’ü), and the administrative capital of Hopeh Province. []
      Shi-jia-zhuang (China): see Shih-chia-chuang.
    • 1988, Laszlo Ladany, The Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985: A Self-Portrait, Hong Kong University Press, published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 129, 140:
      In October 1948, when the fighting was raging in southern Manchuria, Mao had set up his Communist headquarters at Pingshan near the city of Shi-jia-zhuang, about 240 km. from Peking. []
      In April, 35,000 enemy troops were annihilated and victories were recorded around Shi-jia-zhuang, Hebei province, and in the north of Shaanxi province, where a brigade commander was 'caught alive'.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shi-jia-zhuang.