Zhoukou
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See also: Zhōukǒu
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口 (Zhōukǒu).
Pronunciation
- enPR: jōʹkōʹ
Proper noun
Zhoukou
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- , →OCLC, page 7:
- Some 16,000,000 people live on the great plain of eastern Honan, an area of nearly 30,000,000 mou comprising Shangchiu and Choukou Prefectures and the eastern part of Kaifeng Prefecture.]
- , volume I, number 182, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service and People's Daily frontpage, translation of original by Lin Hsi and Shih Te-lien (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 5:
- In order to solve the problem in Fukou County, the Honan provincial and Choukou prefectural CCP committees in May this year sent a joint work group to the country.]
- 2013 March 1, Hongyi Zhao, “Moving graves a headache for all”, in Beijing Today, →OCLC, page 3:
- Last November, the City of Zhoukou, Henan Province issued an administrative notice ordering families to demolish or move their ancestral tombs.
- 2018 December 24, Erika Kinetz, Chen Si, “Santa gets pushed out as China’s leaders emphasize tradition”, in AP News, archived from the original on November 24, 2023:
- Preachers are coached on how to convey Communist Party core values in their sermons and national flags and songs have been injected into some church services, he said.
Liu provided the AP with a notice sent to churches in Zhoukou, a city to the east of Nanyang in Henan province.
- 2019 September 25, Emily Langer, “Shuping Wang, whistleblower who exposed China’s HIV/AIDS crisis, dies at 59”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-26, Obituaries:
- As recently as last month, she had said, Chinese police called on her friends and colleagues in Zhoukou, the city in Henan province that was the site of much of her whistleblowing work, in an effort to pressure Dr. Wang to halt a play about her story on stage at the Hampstead Theatre in London.
Translations
prefecture-level city
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhoukou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2