Ch'ang-tzu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 長子／长子 (Chángzǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-tzŭ³.

Proper noun

Ch'ang-tzu

1. Synonym of Zhangzi
   • 1971, Harold L. Kahn, Monarchy in the Emperor's Eyes: Image and Reality in the Chʻien-lung Reign‎^[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 69:

     A chü-jen of 1657, he later served an exemplary ten months as magistrate of Ch'ang-tzu hsien in Shansi but was then cashiered for negligence in the case of an escaped person.

   • 1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang‎^[3], White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:

     Truly, the Communist Party is the savior and benefactor of poor and miserable people. Had the Eighth Route Army come to Ch’ang-tzu a few years earlier, would my mother now be bedridden?

   • 1984, Hsüan-chih Yang, “Western Suburbs”, in Yi-t'ung Wang, transl., A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang‎^[4], Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167‎^[5]:

     The remaining princes assumed a position of neutrality, except [Yüan] Hui, the only [prince] who accompanied Emperor Chuang to the city of Ch’ang-tzu.³²

     ³² West of modern Ch’ang-tzu hsien 長子縣, Shansi.

   • 1996, Jessica Rawson, “Changes in the Representation of Life and the Afterlife as Illustrated by the Contents of Tombs of the T’ang and Sung Periods”, in Maxwell K. Hearn, Judith G. Smith, editors, Arts of the Sung and Yüan‎^[6], Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 26:

     Eastern Chou tombs in central northern China, at Ch’ang-tzu in Shansi, contained both bodies of real servants and replicas in wood.