Zhuozhou
See also: Zhuōzhōu
English
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Etymology
[edit]From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 涿州 (Zhuōzhōu).
Proper noun
[edit]Zhuozhou
- A county-level city in Baoding, Hebei, China.
- [1967, Chester C. Tan, “The Manchu Court and the Boxers”, in The Boxer Catastrophe[1] (History), New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:
- On June 4 the Boxers set fire to the Huangts’un station of the Peking-Tientsin Railway. General Nieh Shih-ch’êng’s troops promptly arrived, and a pitched battle was fought in which several hundred Boxers were killed.³⁵ On the 6th it was reported that railway communication between Peking and Tientsin was interrupted.³⁶ The day before the Boxers at Chochou had attacked the Kaopeitien station and destroyed the Peiho Bridge of the Paotingfu Railway,³⁷ setting fire to more than ten villages south of Paoting.³⁸]
- 2023 August 4, Keith Bradsher, Li You, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, “Anger Builds in Towns Deliberately Flooded, in Part, to Save Beijing”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-04, Asia Pacific[3]:
- “To protect Beijing, no one cares if we in Hebei are being flooded,” a resident of a village on Zhuozhou’s outskirts complained on Friday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal for criticizing the government.
Another Zhuozhou resident stood at the edge of a field next to his partly submerged village on the city’s outskirts on Friday, waiting for lingering, thigh-deep water to subside.
- 2023 August 5, “China hit by more floods after Typhoon Doksuri”, in Deutsche Welle[4], archived from the original on 05 August 2023, China[5]:
- So far, at least 22 people have died in Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province this week amid the heavy rains. State media reported Saturday that waters have started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.