Tzu-chung

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 資中／资中 (Zīzhōng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-chung¹.

Proper noun

Tzu-chung

1. Alternative form of Zizhong
   • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 141:

     There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies:
     Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period.

   • 1974, Robert A. Kapp, “Chungking as a Center of Warlord Power, 1926-1937”, in Mark Elvin, G. William Skinner, editors, The Chinese City Between Two Worlds‎^[2], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153‎^[3]:

     In 1927 and 1928, the city was the headquarters of a garrison area that stretched from Tzu-chung county to the west through the rich sugar-producing region around Nei-chiang, eastward to Nan-ch'uan near the Kweichow border.