Qinzhou

See also: Qínzhōu and Qīnzhōu

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'in-chou (Wade–Giles)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 秦州 (Qínzhōu).

Alternative forms

• Tsinchow (Postal Romanization)

Proper noun

Qinzhou

1. A district in modern Tianshui, Gansu, China.
   • 2018, William Hurst, “Law and Revolution: Mobilizational Justice and Charismatic Politics”, in Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:

     Qincheng (now called Qinzhou) District Court, in Gansu Province's Tianshui City, in Northwestern China, also saw high numbers of counterrevolutionary trials during the early 1950s.

Translations

district in Tianshui

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 秦州 (ceon⁴ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 秦州 (zh) (Qínzhōu)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 欽州 / 钦州 (Qīnzhōu).

Proper noun

Qinzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Guangxi, China.
   • 2014 June 13, Shaojie Huang, “Businessman Guilty of Killing and Eating Tigers”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on July 12, 2022, Sinosphere‎^[3]:

     A businessman in the southwestern region of Guangxi has pleaded guilty to charges of killing and eating at least three tigers last year, the state-run news agency Xinhua reported.
     Prosecutors in the city of Qinzhou said the defendant, identified only as Mr. Xu, “has a quirky appetite for eating tiger penis and drinking tiger blood,” Xinhua said.

   • 2021 October 8, Cate Cadell, “EXCLUSIVE US electronics firm struck deal to transport and hire Uyghur workers”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 07 October 2021‎^[5]:

     U.S. remote-control maker Universal Electronics Inc (UEIC.O) told Reuters it struck a deal with authorities in Xinjiang to transport hundreds of Uyghur workers to its plant in the southern Chinese city of Qinzhou, the first confirmed instance of an American company participating in a transfer program described by some rights groups as forced labor.

Alternative forms

• Yamchow (Postal Romanization)

Translations

prefecture-level city in Guangxi

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 欽州 / 钦州 (jam¹ zau¹)

  Mandarin: 欽州 / 钦州 (zh) (Qīnzhōu)

Further reading

• Qinzhou, Ch'in-chou, Chin-chou, Ch'inchou, Chinchou at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Qinzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2547, column 3