Dingzhou

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

Dingzhou

1. A county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China.
   • 1996, Karetzky, Patricia Eichenbaum, Arts of the Tang Court‎, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 96-25889, OCLC 966000020, 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 March 27, Chan, Minnie, “Villagers keep up demands for justice”, in South China Morning Post‎, archived from the original on 05 June 2022:

     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, editor, Aftermath: the Cultures of the Economic Crisis‎, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, OCLC 863096759, OL 27790769M, 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.

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