Zichang

See also: Zǐcháng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 子長／子长 (Zǐcháng, literally “Zichang, name of 謝子長 (Xie Zichang)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈtʃɑŋ/, enPR: dzûʹchängʹ

Proper noun

Zichang

1. A county-level city in Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, formerly a county.
   • [1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Hsu T’e-li”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965 (Harvard East Asian Series)‎^[1], volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 364, column 2:

     By 1940 Hsu was identified as a deputy director of the Party Central Committee's Propaganda Department, a post he was to hold for about two decades. From late in the next year until 1946, he also served as a representative from An-ting (now Tzu-ch’ang) hsien, located north of Yenan, in the Second Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia Border Region Government.]

   • [1976, Wilfred Burchett, “In Case of War”, in China: The Quality of Life‎^[2], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:

     'Continuing our tour, we arrived at night at Tzuchang, north of Yenan in Shensi province. Before turning in we had a look around. It was bright moonlight and all around the sides of the valley flames of charcoal-burning and iron-smelting leaped up.]

   • 1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today‎^[3], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 401:

     Zichang county lies between Yan'an and the Great Wall; it is open range country with plenty of land but few people.

   • 2008, Chen Xuejian, editor, Travel Around China‎^[4], HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 316:

     Wayaobao Revolutionary Sites in Zichang County include more than 20 cave houses, the site of the Wayaobao meeting, and living spaces of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Liu Shaoqi.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 子長／子长 (zh) (Zǐcháng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zichang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3567, column 1