Zuoquan

alternative Tsochuan

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.

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

   Culture and Art Publishing House

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

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   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.

   [1924 May, “China Notes for February”, in The Missionary Visitor, volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143

   Matian Bridge, built recently in Zuoquan County, an old revolutionary base in Shanxi, was opened to traffic on 1 August.[…] Matian is the place where the general headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was located during the War of Resistance Against Japan. Proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation Zhu De, Deng Xiaoping, Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan and other comrades commanded important battles here.[…]The bridge was completed after its construction had been in full swing for 20 months. Proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation and the people of Zuoquan have got their long-cherished wish.

   1983 August 8 [1983 August 6], “Deng Xiaoping Greets Shanxi Bridge Completion”, in Daily Report: China, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC Regional Affairs: North Region, page R 3

   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.

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

   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.

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