Heze

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 菏澤／菏泽 (Hézé).

Heze

1. A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
   • 1983 November 8, “QUAKE IN CHINA KILLS AT LEAST 30”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, page A6‎:

     The official New China News Agency said that five hours after the quake 30 people in Heze and Dongming Counties in Shandong had been reported dead. Several thousand houses in Heze County were destroyed, the agency said.
     Authorities in Heze County, on the border between Anhui and Shandong Provinces, said that casualty reports were sketchy but that one death and up to 100 injuries had been recorded in their area.
     The quake jolted most residents from their beds. Nearly everyone was asleep, said Li Jimin, a government official in Heze, 400 miles south of Peking.

   • [1999, Pepper, Suzanne, Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949‎, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 367:

     First, Communist rule had already proved unhealthy for certain kinds of businessmen in the liberated areas due to the ban on trade in many types of non-essential consumer items. We have already noted the resentment this caused among merchants in and around the town of Hotse, Shantung, even though the Communists were trying to be “especially polite” to the business community there.]

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heze”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1277, column 1