Zizhou
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See also: Zǐzhōu
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子洲 (Zǐzhōu, literally “Zizhou, name of 李子洲 (Li Zizhou)”).
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Zizhou
- A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.
- , volume I, number 86, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page H 3:
- Tzuchou County Revolutionary Committee and people's armed forces department have made big efforts to develop broadcasting.]
- 2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese, London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365:
- On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.
- 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:
- I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.
- 2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
- A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area. Farmers in Zizhou protested against local taxes in 1998 by bringing a lawsuit, based on the Administrative Litigation Law (ALL), against local township officials who had imposed higher and extra taxes.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zizhou.