Zhumadian

See also: Zhùmǎdiàn

English

Alternative forms

• Chu-ma-tien (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 駐馬店 / 驻马店 (Zhùmǎdiàn).

Pronunciation

• enPR: jo͞oʹmäʹdyěnʹ

Proper noun

Zhumadian

1. A prefecture-level city in Henan, China, formerly a prefecture.
   • [1978 February, Rewi Alley, “The Epic of Chumatien”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[1], volume XVII, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 1:

     The Chumatien prefecture is 14,710 square kilometres in extent. It has 773,330 hectares of arable land, 4,000 hectares of which is. in hilly country, 66,670 in marsh, and 166,670 in plains. Its two main rivers are the Hung and the Ju, which join together at the Anhwei boundary, and flow into the Hwai River.]

   • [1981, Dan N. Jacobs, “Going Home”, in Borodin: Stalin's Man in China‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 272:

     The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.]

   • 2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World‎^[4]:

     The size of the protest in Suixian County is extraordinary, but it is not an isolated phenomenon. Recently, farmers from the villages of Chenglao and Wenlou have been detained in the city of Zhumadian, where they went to press local officials for more help.
     Wenlou, the only village in Henan that the government has acknowledged by name to have an AIDS problem, has become something of a showcase for the disease, its AIDS victims visited by officials from Beijing and given a clinic and a modicum of free medical care.
     But villagers say the drugs dispensed there are worthless against their disease, and at the end of November eight villagers with H.I.V. marched into the Zhumadian health office and refused to leave without a promise of more help.

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 駐馬店 / 驻马店 (zh) (Zhùmǎdiàn)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhumadian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3566, column 2
• Zhumadian, Chumatien, Chu-ma-tien at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.