Zizhou

alternative Tzu-chou

1. A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

   In Tzuchou County over 60 small coal mines are now in production.

   [1970, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8

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   Tzuchou County Revolutionary Committee and people's armed forces department have made big efforts to develop broadcasting.

   [1971 May 4 [1971 April 30], Tzuchou County Revolutionary Committee, quotee, “Display the Yenan Spirit and Run Broadcasting Well”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 86, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page H 3

   On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.

   2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese, London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365

   I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.

   2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31

   A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area. Farmers in Zizhou protested against local taxes in 1998 by bringing a lawsuit, based on the Administrative Litigation Law (ALL), against local township officials who had imposed higher and extra taxes.

   2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212