Jiaocheng

See also: jiàochéng

English

Alternative forms

• Chiao-ch'eng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 交城 (Jiāochéng).

Proper noun

Jiaocheng

1. A county of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • [1974 February, “China's Young Electronics Industry”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:

     In 1972, when the Chiaocheng County Trucking Company in Shansi province over 1,000 kilometers to the north bought five electronic ignition systems from the Fatshan plant, it sent workers and technicians to help the buyers master their use, returning only when they were satisfied.]

   • [1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

     Chiaocheng County
     Chiaocheng county lies 60 kilometres southwest of Taiyuan. It is in the prefecture of Luliang, and a goodly part of it is in the Luliang Mountains, with the peak of Yunmeng Mountain dominating. It is well known as the birthplace of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. […]
     Chiaocheng county is one of 190,000 people, 180,000 of whom work on agriculture.]

   • 1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China‎^[3], Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

     Fanjiazhuang, Jiaocheng
     In the summer of 1957, a group of paleoanthropologists on field investigation found a number of paleolithic stone artifacts at Fanjiazhuang Village northwest of Jiaocheng county in Shanxi Province.

   • 2016 February 18, Li Jing, “Save Our Statue: dramatic protest in China to save ex-leader Hua Guofeng’s figure from being demolished”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], archived from the original on 19 February 2016, Policies & Politics‎^[5]:

     Residents had on January 27 erected the bronze statue of Hua, Mao Zedong’s hand-picked successor who led the party from 1976 to 1981, at a square outside Hua’s cemetery in Jiaocheng county.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 交城 (zh) (Jiāochéng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Jiaocheng, Chiao-ch'eng at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiaocheng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1447, column 1