Ruzhou
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汝州 (Rǔzhōu).
Proper noun edit
Ruzhou
- A county-level city in Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
- [1890, Alfred E. Hippisley, A Catalogue of the Hippisley Collection of Chinese Porcelains, with a Sketch of the History of Ceramic Art in China.[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 399:
- Ju-yao or Juchou porcelain.—Chinese authors state that the porcelain manufactured at Tingchou (see p. 402), being unfit for presentation to the emperor, the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of more suitable articles was ordered at Juchou, in Honan province.]
- [1908, Yuan-p'ien Hsiang, translated by Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Porcelain: Sixteenth-Century Coloured Illustrations with Chinese ms. Text[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 12:
- The Ju Yao of the Sung dynasty was made at Ju-chou, the modern Ju-chou-fu, in the province of Honan.]
- 2019 November 10, Alexandra Stevenson, Cao Li, “How Bad Is China’s Debt? A City Hospital Is Asking Nurses for Loans”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 10, 2019[4]:
- Ruzhou, a town surrounded by coal mines in Henan Province, borrowed and spent in line with China’s government-driven fads, which helped guarantee that Beijing would pay for much of it.
- 2021 July 20, Ryan Woo, “Dozen central Chinese cities under water as river banks burst”, in Nick Macfie, editor, Reuters[5], archived from the original on 20 July 2021, Environment[6]:
- In Ruzhou, a city southwest of Zhengzhou, streets have been turned into torrents, sweeping away cars and other vehicles, footage on social media showed.
Translations edit
county-level city
Further reading edit
- Ruzhou, Ju-chou, Juchou at Google Ngram Viewer
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Ruzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2671, column 3