Tzu-chou

English

Map including Tzu-chou (Shuang-hu-yü) (middle left) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 子洲 (Zǐzhōu) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-chou¹.

Proper noun

Tzu-chou

1. Alternative form of Zizhou
   • 1967 May 22 [1965 December], Ch'eng Chi-ch'eng (2110 4949 2052), Kuo Shu-kuei (6753 2885 9178), “Some Achievements in the Process of Applying of the Laws of Morphometry in the Loess Hill District in Northern Shensi”, in Collected Works of the 1965 Geomorphology Meeting of the Chinese Geographical Conference‎^[1], number 41,115, Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Geomorphology Committee of China Geographical Society, Science Press, Peking, pages i-iii and 1-170, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 344‎^[2]:

     These four small regions of Chiu-yuan-kou, Hsin-chan-kou, Wang-chia-kou, and She-chia-kou, in the loess hill district in the northern part of Shensi are located respectively in Sui-te Hsien and Tzu-chou Hsien in Shensi Province.

   • 1978, Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[3], numbers 439-447, →OCLC, page 122:

     Figure 7 depicts a composite of four profiles of the same slope taken from the middle reaches of the Ch'a-pa Gully in Tzu-chou County of Shensi Province.

   • 1991, Thomas Lawton, A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:

     According to one published account, said to be based on information provided by foreign missionaries in Chungking, whose reaction may have been influenced by the excesses of the Boxer Rebellion just a few years earlier, Tuan-fang was killed by his own soldiers at Tzu-chou, Shensi province.

Translations

Zizhou — see Zizhou