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Jiaozuo

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See also: jiàozuò and Jiāozuò

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 焦作 (Jiāozuò).

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Jiaozuo

  1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
    • [1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan[1], New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:
      Work on the new railroad that thrust its way up onto the Shangtang: Plateau from the old railhead at the huge coalmine of Chiaotso in the Yellow River Valley went on for three years.]
    • [1987, Peter Stursberg, “Dragon Bones”, in The Golden Hope: Christians in China[2], Toronto: The United Church Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:
      Luttrell gave up missionary work in 1924 to become a welfare officer with the Peking Syndicate’s coal mine at Chiaotso in North Honan.⁴
      As a missionary, Luttrell had been stattoned at Chiaotso and got to know the British managers and engineers who were in charge of operations there.
      ]
    • 2016 March 31, Alan Taylor, “More of the Chinese Art of the Crowd”, in The Atlantic[3], archived from the original on 05 April 2016[4]:
      Participants perform Tai Chi at a square in Jiefang District during a worldwide Tai Chi activity on October 18, 2015, in Jiaozuo, Henan Province.

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