Tz'u-hsi

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 慈谿／慈溪 (Cíxī) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzʻŭ²-hsi¹.

Proper noun

Tz'u-hsi

1. Alternative form of Cixi
   • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, “The Nature of Ming Population Data”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

     The same tendency can be illustrated on a prefectural scale as Table 6 showing Ning-po, with breakdowns for its five constituent counties, shows. Except for the figures of Tz’u-hsi county, which show a steady decline, the population returns indicate either very slight changes or no change whatever in a full generation.

   • 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Organizational Problems of the Agricultural Producers' Co-operatives”, in A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition‎^[2], The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 242:

     In Tz’u-hsi county of Chekiang Province 19.9 per cent of 640 co-operatives were reported to have committed serious waste.

   • 1999, Linda A. Walton, “Shrines, Schools, and Shih: The Thirteenth-Century Academy Movement”, in Academies and Society in Southern Sung China‎^[3], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 66:

     So begins an inscription on Mount Tai Academy written in 1275 by Huang Chen (1213-1280; 1256 chin-shih), one of Chu Hsi’s noted thirteenth-century followers whose native place was Ming's Tz’u-hsi County, also the home of Lu Chiu-yuan’s major disciple, Yang Chien.

   • 2002, Robert Hymes, “Notes”, in Way and Byway: Taoism, Local Religion, and Models of Divinity in Sung and Modern China‎^[4], University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 307:

     Ming-chou is modern Ningbo. Huang came from Tz’u-hsi County in the north of the prefecture, on the shore of Hang-chou Bay.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tzeki or Tz’u-ch’i”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1971, column 3