Zichang
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See also: Zǐcháng
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子長／子长 (Zǐcháng, literally “Zichang, name of 謝子長 (Xie Zichang)”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Zichang
- A county-level city in Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.
- , 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.]
- , 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.]
- 2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 316:
- Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites in Zichang County include more than 20 cave houses, the site of the Wayaobao meeting, and living spaces of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi.
Translations
county-level city
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3567, column 1