Zhoukou
See also: Zhōukǒu
English edit
Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 周口 (Zhōukǒu).
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: jōʹkōʹ
Proper noun edit
Zhoukou
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 2013 March 1, Hongyi Zhao, “Moving graves a headache for all”, in Beijing Today[2], →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[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-09-26, Obituaries[4]:
- 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 edit
prefecture-level city
Further reading edit
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhoukou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2