Meanings
- A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China.
Yousheng Village, Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, is about 100 miles southwest of Beijing.
2012, Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, João Manuel Gaspar Caraça, editors, Aftermath: the Cultures of the Economic Crisis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2673 more examples
Their colour, once described as silver or snow, was long held to be an achievement of the potters of the Song dynasty, but excavations at the Dingzhou kilns in Hebei as early as 1941 have established that white ware was already in production at that location during the ninth century.
1996, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Arts of the Tang Court, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47The Communist Party chief of Dingzhou, a city in northern Hebei Province, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in one the bloodiest rural clashes in recent years, family members of the victims said.
2006, Joseph Kahn, “World Briefing | Asia: China: City Chief Gets Life In Land Clash”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023, WorldDingzhou residents who lost family in a land row insist on official probe, saying five convicted in court are scapegoats Residents of Dingzhou, Hebei province, where six villagers were beaten to death last summer over a land dispute, have been taking turns to petition authorities in Beijing for further investigations into the case despite a court verdict last month. Although a court in Handan city sentenced four people to death and Dingzhou party secretary He Feng to life in prison for their roles in the violent crackdown, the villagers say they are convinced the five are only scapegoats and Beijing must act to bring the real criminals to justice.
2006 March 27, Minnie Chan, “Villagers keep up demands for justice”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2022 - historicalSynonym of Ding Prefecture, a prefecture of imperial China with its seat at Dingzhou.
Synonyms: Ding Prefecture, Lunu, Boling, Dingxian, Tingsien, Tingchow
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Ding Prefecture, a prefecture of imperial China with its seat at Dingzhou.
Origin
- Mandarin定州“Orderly Prefecture”
- EnglishDingzhou
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定州 (Dìngzhōu, “Orderly Prefecture”).
More words from Mandarin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 定州
- 定州 (ding⁶ zau¹)a county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China
Chinese Mandarin 定州
- 定州 (Dìngzhōu)a county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China
Hungarian Tingcsou
- Tingcsoua county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China
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