Zuoquan

• Tsochuan (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左權 / 左权 (Zuǒquán^[1], literally “Zuo Quan”), a general in the Chinese Red Army who died in 1942.

For the name of the county, the correct standard formatting of the Hanyu Pinyin romanization is Zuǒquán Xiàn and is not Zuǒ Quán Xiàn. The 1984 rule states that when a person's name is used in a place name, the surname and given name in the place name are joined together without a space between them. The rule gives Zuoquan County as an example application for the rule.^[1]

• enPR: dzôʹchüǎnʹ^[2]

Zuoquan

1. A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
   • [1924 May, “China Notes for February”, in The Missionary Visitor‎^[2], 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.]

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping‎^[3], 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, 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])‎^[4], Beijing: 文化艺术出版社 [Culture and Art Publishing House], →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^[5], 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.

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

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zuoquan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3576, column 2