Zuoquan

• (from Wade–Giles) Tsochuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左權／左权 (Zuǒquán, literally “Zuo Quan”).

• enPR: dzôʹchüǎnʹ[1]

Zuoquan

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
   • [1924 May, “China Notes for February”, in The Missionary Visitor‎, volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143:

     Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.[...]The governor of our province has subscribed $500 (Mex.) toward the purchase of X-ray equipment for the Liao Chou Hospital.]

   • 1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 314:

     On July 7 of the same year, the Provisional Assembly of Representatives of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Area was inaugurated in Liaoxian County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi Province.

   • 1999, Sun Jingchen (孙景琛), Luo Xiongyan (罗雄岩), Zi Huayun (资华筠), Li Jinhui, Liu Jun, Zhang Qizhi, transl.; Zi Huayun (资华筠), editor, Chinese Dance (中国舞蹈) (Chinese Culture and Art Series (中国文化艺术丛书))‎, Beijing: Culture and Art Publishing House (文化艺术出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

     The "Xiaohuaxi" (small lantern dance) found in Zuoquan, Shanxi Province is also a kind of small local opera.

   • 2020, Levi S. Gibbs, Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts‎, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:

     In mid-September of 2002, a month before the competition in Xianju, Zuoquan County organized a large-scale commemoration for a local Eighth Route Army general.

   • 2021 March 26, “4 dead in coal mine accident in north China”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎, archived from the original on 2023-04-09‎:

     The accident happened at 3:51 a.m. Thursday, when 12 workers were digging a tunnel underground for a colliery company in Zuoquan County under Huayang New Material Technology Group Co., Ltd. Among them, eight were lifted from underground.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Zuoquan.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zuoquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 2