Zhashui
See also: Zhàshuǐ
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 柞水 (Zhàshuǐ).
Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: jäʹshwāʹ
Proper noun
[edit]Zhashui
- A county of Shangluo, Shaanxi, China.
- [1973 January 15 [1973 January 13], “Shensi Region Holds Symposium on Criticizing Revisionism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 10, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Sian Shensi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China Northwest Region, page H 2:
- Shanglo regional CCP committee recently held a symposium on the campaign to criticize revisionism and rectify the style of work in the rural areas, which studied the New Year editorial and summed up experiences in popularizing the experiences of the state-owned No 1 cotton mill. […]
At one stage the idea that 'criticizing revisionism and rectifying the style of work is just a gust of wind' appeared among the leading members of the Chashui County CCP Committee.]
- 2014, Mark Moody-Stuart, Responsible Leadership: Lessons from the Front Line of Sustainability and Ethics[1], Greenleaf Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 237:
- The book’s impressive statistics have a very human face, which I was able to see in 2007 on a visit to Zhashui County in Shaanxi Province with Lu Mai, the Secretary-General of the China Development Research Foundation, who plays a key role in organising the China Development Forum. Shaanxi is not a particularly poor province, but Zhashui County, located in the southern mountainous area, has an average annual per capita income of ¥1,300 ($188).
- 2015 August 14, “Drunk Man Smashes 16 Cars After Scolding”, in Beijing Today[2], number 740, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:
- Police in Zhashui County, Shaanxi province were notified of 16 cars being maliciously smashed on Hexi Road in late July.
- 2021 April 23, “‘A Date with China’ media tour kicks off in Shaanxi”, in AP News, PR Newswire[3], archived from the original on 2023-04-14[4]:
- “A Date with China”, an international media tour with the theme of “On Road to Prosperity”, kicked off Monday morning in Zhashui county, Shangluo city of Northwest China’s Shaanxi province. […]
“Families and individuals in many poverty-stricken regions in China like Zhashui county have shed off poverty and led well-off lives. This transformation of their destinies is a miracle from China’s fight against poverty,” he added.
Translations
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhashui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3562, column 3