Citations:Zizhou

English citations of Zizhou

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• [1970, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly supplement‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

  In Tzuchou County over 60 small coal mines are now in production.]

• 2000, Jasper Becker, The Chinese‎^[2], London: John Murray, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 365:

  On my last trip before completing this book, I visited Zizhou county, about 200 miles north of Yan’an, where peasants had tried to engage a lawyer to defend themselves in the courts against the oppressive and brutal control of local Party officials. Not much had changed here in the seventy years since Mao’s Long March and his ‘liberation’ of the peasants from their ‘cruel landlords’. Now, the peasants were afraid not of landlords but of the Party officials who prey on them just as the landlords once did.

• 2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Emerging in the East: Can the Chinese State Evolve?”, in The Coming Collapse of China‎^[3] (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 246:

  “Taiwan can elect its own leaders — pretty cool,” noted a message posted on a Mainland Web site a few days after Taiwan’s presidential election in March 2000. Jing Xiuhu, a peasant in inland Shaanxi Province, is more direct: “We want democracy.” And Jiang Zemin understands. During his visit to New York in September 2000, the leader of the world’s largest dictatorship said, “The Chinese people love democracy and freedom.” And because they do, the Party responds by sponsoring village elections. But where sentiment is hostile, the peasants are not allowed to put up their own candidates, such as in Jing Xiuhu’s Zizhou County, or even to have elections at all. “Nothing has changed here after the Communists came,” says Jing with anger. “The revolution just benefits corrupt leaders.”
  It also impoverishes the rural poor. In Zizhou the peasants would starve were it not for the handouts of food from their rich neighbors; in 1999, their average annual net income per person was just over US$1.

• 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China‎^[4], New York: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 31:

  I had planned to go to Zizhou, the county where Mr. Ma had organized the peasants. It was halfway between Yulin and Yan'an, which is where Mr. Ma lived.

• 2012, Merle Goldman, From Comrade to Citizen: the Struggle for Political Rights in China‎^[5], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:

  A prominent example of such action took place in the villages in Zizhou County, a drought-prone area several hundred miles north of Yan’an, Shaanxi Province, Mao’s revolutionary base area. Farmers in Zizhou protested against local taxes in 1998 by bringing a lawsuit, based on the Administrative Litigation Law (ALL), against local township officials who had imposed higher and extra taxes.

• 2018 July 29, Laurie Chen, “China brings 10,000 teachers out of retirement to take up jobs in impoverished rural areas”, in South China Morning Post‎^[6], archived from the original on 28 July 2018:

  Ma Jun, who teaches at a village boarding school in Zizhou county, Shaanxi province, was pessimistic about the plan to use retired teachers to educate rural pupils.
  Older teachers might not have the right mindset to teach rural children, she said.

• 2022 January 6, “Xinhua pictures of the year 2021: China news”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[7], archived from the original on 07 January 2022:

  Ma Weishuai teach students the yangko dance at a school set up for left-behind children in Zhoujiajian Township of Zizhou County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Aug. 6, 2021. In spite of difficulties, Ma, the founder of the school, has stuck to his post for over 30 years.