Zhongguo
See also: Zhōngguó
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中國 / 中国 (Zhōngguó).
Proper noun
[edit]Zhongguo
- (astronomy) 3789 Zhongguo, an asteroid.
- (rare) China.
- 1988, Jörg Schuldhess, Who They Are and What They Do, Patis, →ISBN, pages 27–28:
- Yes, the Chinese are as if they had just awakened from a long sleep. They are laughing in the sun, the streets are clean, the houses friendly and inviting. We never eat at our apartment but at a different place every night, and the people are always disarmingly kind and open-hearted. One of these days Zhongguo will be a great country.
- 2001, Kai-wing Chow, “Narrating Nation, Race, and National Culture: Imagining the Hanzu Identity in Modern China”, in Kai-wing Chow, Kevin M[ichael] Doak, Poshek Fu, editors, Constructing Nationhood in Modern East Asia, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, published 2004, →ISBN, part 1 (Narrative Schemes, Language, and Printed Texts), page 53:
- But did not the Chinese boast of their long written history? The answer to this puzzling question can be found in an unequivocal remark made by a Chinese student in Japan. He lamented: “Our Zhongguo does not have a national history.”
- 2013, Wang Gungwu, “Modernity, the State and Civilization”, in Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History, Sha Tin, N.T.: The Chinese University Press, →ISBN, page 124:
- [F]uture generations of Chinese leaders will recognize that a new Chinese civilization will not depend on China remaining a Party-state or becoming a nation-state. A broad and inclusive Zhongguo will need to go further to establish a civilization that its people all agree will be modern and admirable. That may or may not be the “socialist civilization with Chinese characteristics” that the Party wants for China today.
- 2018, Justin Newland, “Pacing the Dragon”, in The Old Dragon’s Head, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 251:
- The great conclave of dragons will hear your petition. The invisible gate will open, allowing the yellow dragon, the Laolong, the faithful servant of Zhongguo, to return to its rightful home in the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Li.
- 2019, Adity Kay, Emperor Vikramaditya[1], Gurugram, Haryana: Hachette India, →ISBN:
- It seemed he met his end in the avalanche when he went to help the traders and monks from Zhongguo.