Zhidan

See also: Zhìdān

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 志丹 (Zhìdān, literally “Zhidan, name of 劉志丹 (Liu Zhidan)”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jûʹdänʹ

Proper noun

Zhidan

1. A county of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1961, Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung‎^[2], volume IV, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25:

     Pao-an was a county in the northwestern part of Shensi Province. It is now called Chihtan County. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China had its headquarters there from early July 1936 to January 1937. Later it moved to Yenan.]

   • [1978 July, Ramon H. Myers, “Peter Schran, Guerilla Economy: The Development of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghia Border Region, 1937-1945”, in Economic Development and Cultural Change‎^[3], volume 26, number 4, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 816:

     With so many able-bodied men and women fighting in guerrilla units, old women and children had to work. For example, in “Chih-tan county of district one, a 52 year old woman in Ts’ai-she-p’ing village had reclaimed about two acres of land within only one month.”]

   • 2013 July 17, Teddy Ng, “PetroChina unit in Shaanxi shut after pipeline rupture leaks oil into reservoir”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 05, 2024, China:

     A PetroChina unit in Shaanxi has been shut down after oil from a ruptured pipeline contaminated a source of drinking water for 200,000 residents of the city of Yanan.
     The 100-kilometre pipeline, which runs upstream of the Wangyao Reservoir in Zhidan county, was damaged during a landslide sometime before Monday, when the leak was discovered, the local government said. […]
     The landslide that ruptured the pipeline was one among many caused by days of torrential rainfall during the past two weeks. Zhidan county received more than 20cm of rainfall - or 4½ times the rainfall in the same period last year.

   • 2017, Juan Wang, “The Changes and Continuity of Local State Cohesion”, in The Sinews of State Power: The Rise and Demise of the Cohesive Local State in Rural China‎^[5], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 76:

     Those county leaders who resisted were soon removed. For example, the county leaders in Zhidan county in Shannxi^{[sic – meaning Shaanxi]} province (Zweig, 1983) and Jimo county in Shandong province (Han, 2008) were replaced by those who supported decommunization.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 志丹 (zh) (Zhìdān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhidan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3564, column 2