Zuoquan

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See also: Zuǒquán

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左權／左权 (Zuǒquán, literally “Zuo Quan”), a general in the Chinese Red Army who died in 1942.

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Zuoquan

  1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
    • , volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143:
      Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.[...]The governor of our province has subscribed $500 (Mex.) toward the purchase of X-ray equipment for the Liao Chou Hospital.]
    • 1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 314:
      On July 7 of the same year, the Provisional Assembly of Representatives of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Area was inaugurated in Liaoxian County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi Province.
    • 1999, 孙景琛 [Sun Jingchen], 罗雄岩 [Luo Xiongyan], 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], translated by Li Jinhui, Liu Jun, and Zhang Qizhi, edited by 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], 中国舞蹈 [Chinese Dance] (中国文化艺术丛书 [Chinese Culture and Art Series])‎, Beijing: 文化艺术出版社 [Culture and Art Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:
      The "Xiaohuaxi" (small lantern dance) found in Zuoquan, Shanxi Province is also a kind of small local opera.
    • 2020, Levi S. Gibbs, Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts‎, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:
      In mid-September of 2002, a month before the competition in Xianju, Zuoquan County organized a large-scale commemoration for a local Eighth Route Army general.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zuoquan.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsochüan or Tso-ch’üan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1954, column 2: “Tsochüan or Tso-ch’üan (dzôʹchüǎnʹ), […] Until 1912 called Liaochow; later, 1912-49, Liaohsien.”

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