Zuoquan
See also: Zuǒquán
English
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editEtymology
editFrom 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.
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editZuoquan
- 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.
- 2021 March 26, “4 dead in coal mine accident in north China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[6], archived from the original on 2023-04-09[7]:
- The accident happened at 3:51 a.m. Thursday, when 12 workers were digging a tunnel underground for a colliery company in Zuoquan County under Huayang New Material Technology Group Co., Ltd. Among them, eight were lifted from underground.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zuoquan.
Translations
editReferences
edit- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsochüan or Tso-ch’üan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1954, column 2: “Tsochüan or Tso-ch’üan (dzôʹchüǎnʹ), […] Until 1912 called Liaochow; later, 1912-49, Liaohsien.”
Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zuoquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[8], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 2