Dingzhou

See also: Dìngzhōu

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定州 (Dìngzhōu, “Orderly Prefecture”).

Proper noun

Dingzhou

1. A county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China.
   • 1996, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Arts of the Tang Court‎^[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

     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.

   • 2006, Joseph Kahn, “World Briefing | Asia: China: City Chief Gets Life In Land Clash”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 March 2023, World‎^[3]:

     The 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 March 27, Minnie Chan, “Villagers keep up demands for justice”, in South China Morning Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 June 2022‎^[5]:

     Dingzhou 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.

   • 2012, Manuel Castells, Gustavo Cardoso, João Manuel Gaspar Caraça, editors, Aftermath: the Cultures of the Economic Crisis‎^[6], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 267:

     Yousheng Village, Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, is about 100 miles southwest of Beijing.

2. (historical) Synonym of Ding Prefecture, a prefecture of imperial China with its seat at Dingzhou.

Synonyms

• (city): Lunu, Boling, Dingxian (historical); Tingsien, Tingchow (obsolete or historical)

Translations

a county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 定州 (zh) (Dìngzhōu)

• Hungarian: Tingcsou (hu)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dingzhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1022, column 3