Zuoquan

See also: Zuǒquán

English

Alternative forms

• Tsochuan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左權／左权 (Zuǒquán, literally “Zuo Quan”), a general in the Chinese Red Army who died in 1942.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dzôʹchüǎnʹ

Proper noun

Zuoquan

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
   • [1924 May, “China Notes for February”, in The Missionary Visitor‎^[2], volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143:

     Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.[...]The governor of our province has subscribed $500 (Mex.) toward the purchase of X-ray equipment for the Liao Chou Hospital.]

   • 1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎^[3], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 314:

     On July 7 of the same year, the Provisional Assembly of Representatives of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Area was inaugurated in Liaoxian County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi Province.

   • 1999, 孙景琛 [Sun Jingchen], 罗雄岩 [Luo Xiongyan], 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], translated by Li Jinhui, Liu Jun, and Zhang Qizhi, edited by 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], 中国舞蹈 [Chinese Dance] (中国文化艺术丛书 [Chinese Culture and Art Series])‎^[4], Beijing: 文化艺术出版社 [Culture and Art Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

     The "Xiaohuaxi" (small lantern dance) found in Zuoquan, Shanxi Province is also a kind of small local opera.

   • 2020, Levi S. Gibbs, Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts‎^[5], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:

     In mid-September of 2002, a month before the competition in Xianju, Zuoquan County organized a large-scale commemoration for a local Eighth Route Army general.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zuoquan.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 左權／左权 (zh) (Zuǒquán)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zuoquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 2