Zizhong

• (from Wade–Giles) Tzu-chung

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 資中／资中 (Zīzhōng, literally “middle reaches of the Tuo River in Zi Prefecture (Sichuan)”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /ˌ(d)zɪˈd͡ʒʊŋ/

Zizhong

1. A county of Neijiang, Sichuan, China.
   • [1959, Ho, Ping-ti, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎, Harvard University Press, LCCN 59-12970, OCLC 185605317, 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.]

   • 1992, Julia C. Lin, transl., Women of the Red Plain: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Women's Poetry‎, Penguin Books, Chinese Literature Press, →ISBN, OCLC 469958813, OL 7356976M, page 32:

     Born in Zizhong County of Sichuan Province, Fu is one of the promising new women poets appearing on the literary scene in recent years.