Tianzhen

See also: tiānzhēn

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 天鎮 / 天镇.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: tyěnʹjǔnʹ[1]
  • Hyphenation: Tian‧zhen

Proper noun

Tianzhen

  1. A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.
    • [1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, “The Flight from Peking and the Court in Exile”, in China Under the Empress Dowager‎[2], Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
      On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.]
    • [1973 May 15 [1973 May 11], “Kweichow Forum on Rice Cultivation Notes Shortcomings”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 94, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Kweiyang Kweichow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 3:
      Recently in Tienchen County, the Kweichow Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Bureau convened a forum on rice cultivation, attended by responsible cadres of the agricultural bureaus of a number of regions, autonomous chou and counties and persons concerned, together with a number of poor and lower-middle peasants.]
    • 2014, Kim Hunter Gordon, editor, Datong: A Historical Guide‎[3], Matric International Publishing, →ISBN, page 274:
      Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.
    • 2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist‎[4], archived from the original on 12 August 2020, China‎[5]:
      Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.

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References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tienchen or T’ien-chen”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1911, column 1
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