Zizhong

See also: zīzhòng, zǐzhǒng, zìzhòng, and Zīzhōng

English

Alternative forms

• Tzu-chung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 資中 / 资中 (Zīzhōng, literally “middle reaches of the Tuo River in Zi Prefecture (Sichuan)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒʊŋ/, enPR: dzûʹjo͝ongʹ

Proper noun

Zizhong

1. A county of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
   • [1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141:

     There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies:
     Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period.]

   • 1992, Julia C. Lin, transl., Women of the Red Plain: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry‎^[3], Penguin Books, Chinese Literature Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

     Born in Zizhong County of Sichuan Province, Fu is one of the promising new women poets appearing on the literary scene in recent years.

   • 2001 December 11, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Spread of AIDS in Rural China Ignites Protests”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World‎^[5]:

     For example, Yucheng in nearby Shanxi Province has a serious H.I.V. epidemic related to blood selling, the government press has reported. More surprising, so does Zizhong in Sichuan Province, more than 500 miles from Henan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 資中 / 资中 (zh) (Zīzhōng)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zizhong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3570, column 3