Zhoukou
See also: Zhōukǒu
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口 (Zhōukǒu).
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: jōʹkōʹ
Proper noun
editZhoukou
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- [1978 September 19 [1978 September 13], Lin Hsi, Shih Te-lien, “The Importance of Reforming Leading Bodies as Seen From the Fukou Case”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[2], volume I, number 182, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service and People's Daily frontpage, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 5[3]:
- In order to solve the problem in Fukou County, the Honan provincial and Choukou prefectural CCP committees in May this year sent a joint work group to the country.]
- 2013 March 1, Hongyi Zhao, “Moving graves a headache for all”, in Beijing Today[4], →OCLC, page 3:
- Last November, the City of Zhoukou, Henan Province issued an administrative notice ordering families to demolish or move their ancestral tombs.
- 2019 September 25, Emily Langer, “Shuping Wang, whistleblower who exposed China’s HIV/AIDS crisis, dies at 59”, in The Washington Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-26, Obituaries[6]:
- As recently as last month, she had said, Chinese police called on her friends and colleagues in Zhoukou, the city in Henan province that was the site of much of her whistleblowing work, in an effort to pressure Dr. Wang to halt a play about her story on stage at the Hampstead Theatre in London.
Translations
editprefecture-level city
Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhoukou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2