Ziyang

See also: zīyǎng

English

Alternative forms

• Tzu-yang, Tzŭ-yang (Wade–Giles)

Pronunciation

• enPR: dzûʹyängʹ

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資陽／资阳 (Zīyáng).

Proper noun

Ziyang

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • 2005 July 26, “New disease is not SARS, China says”, in The New York Times‎^[2], sourced from BEIJING, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 30, 2023, Health‎^[3]:

     An official at the health bureau of the Sichuan Province city of Ziyang, one of the places where the disease was found, discounted reports that it could be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, but he declined to elaborate. […]
     As of Saturday, 58 people were suspected to have the disease in the neighboring cities of Ziyang and Neijiang, the Sichuan health department said in a statement.

2. A district of Yiyang, Hunan, China.

Translations

prefecture-level city; district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資陽／资阳 (zh) (Zīyáng)

Etymology 2

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紫陽／紫阳 (Zǐyáng).

Alternative forms

• (in Shaanxi): Tzeyang

Proper noun

Ziyang

1. A county of Ankang, Shaanxi, China.
   • [1975 November, “Shoulder-pole Art Troupes”, in China Reconstructs‎^[4], volume XXIV, number 11, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, column 3:

     When Tzuyang county in the Tapa Mountains in Shensi province was launching a movement to build irrigation works, the county's art troupe was visiting the Lienho commune. When they saw how hard the commune members worked to dig tunnels through the mountains to bring water from the Pan River for irrigation, and the backbreaking labor necessary to build terraced fields, the troupe members were deeply moved.]

   • 1987, Xu-Jiu Zhai, Yao-Hua Cheng, Yu-Wen Wang, Xiao-Fen Yan, Yun Cai, Zhi-Ming Qi, Tai Gao, “Selenium Contents of Swine Liver in China”, in Gerald F. Combs, Jr., Orville A. Levander, Julian E. Spallholz, James E. Oldfield, editors, Selenium in Biology and Medicine: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Selenium in Biology and Medicine, Held in Beijing, May 27-June 1, 1984‎^[5], volume B, Van Nostrand Reinhold, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 832:

     The Se content of liver in Ziyang County, Shaanxi Province, was significantly high, with a mean level of 3.30 = 1.21 ppm (dry matter), and serious Se intoxication in animals and human beings has occurred.

   • 2002, Jonathan Unger, The Transformation of Rural China‎^[6], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 70:

     As just one examples, on the other side of China a parallel occurrence is recorded in the gazetteer published by Ziyang county in Shaanxi Province (Xian: Sangin Chubanshe, pp. 521-26): During the nationwide wave of “power seizures” in early 1967, two antagonistic factions had emerged in the county capital—“Eryipai,” to which the preponderance of teachers and secondary-school students belonged, and “Erliupai,” based more heavily on cadres, peasants and workers. In 1968 the factional fighting in the county escalated, and in April military and police ammunition was seized by the two factions. Members of the weaker Eryipai soon thereafter fled the county and joined their allies in neighboring counties. Amid rear-guard armed fighting, many of the adherents of Eryipai who remained behind were rounded up, along with their families and members of the “bad classes.” Over 400 were tortured and then murdered, including 211 labeled as “bad- class.” By the end of 1968 a PLA unit entered the county to end the bloodshed.

   • 2008, Ming Xia, The People's Congresses and Governance in China: Toward a Network Mode of Governance‎^[7], Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 233:

     Wei was elected to the NPC by the Shaanxi PPC, and to the Shaanxi PPC by the Ziyang County PC through indirect elections.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ziyang.
2. A subdistrict of Wuchang district, Wuhan, Hubei, China.

Translations

county; subdistrict

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 紫陽／紫阳 (zh) (Zǐyáng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ziyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3570, column 3

Anagrams

• Yangzi