Zoucheng

• (from Wade–Giles) Tsou-ch'eng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鄒城／邹城 (Zōuchéng).

• IPA^(key): /(d)zoʊˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

Zoucheng

1. A county-level city in Jining, Shandong, China.
   • 2002, Wei Liming (韦黎明), The Land of Silk (中国的丝绸)‎, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 885962672, OL 9067621M, page 22:

     In addition, silk fabrics found in the tomb of a local scholar by the name of Li Yu’an in Zoucheng County, Shandong Province, date back to 1231.

   • 2006, David J. Lynch, “Discontent in China Boils into Public Protest”, in China (Global Studies)‎, 11th edition, →ISBN, ISSN 1050-2025, OCLC 957351229, OL 7307173M, page 155:

     In November 2003, thousands of people in Zoucheng, Shandong province, stormed a government building, smashing windows and office equipment, after a sidewalk vendor was accidentally run over when city officials tried to enforce a new policy against such sales.

   • 2006, James Kynge, China Shakes the World: The Rise of a Hungry Nation‎, Orion Books, →ISBN, OCLC 302073511, OL 28416822M, page 149:

     The link between man and nature that Mencius made is as valid today as it was more than 2,000 years ago. His home town, a place called Zoucheng in a corner of Shandong province, wears the strain of population upon its sleeve.

   • [2011, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, William H. Nienhauser, Jr., editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX: The Memoirs of Han China‎, volume II, published 2019, →ISBN, LCCN 94-18408, OCLC 1162308778, OL 28724264M, page :

     Tsou 騶 is written as 芻 in Han shu, 52.2394. The county of Tsou was about ten miles southeast of modern Tsou-ch'eng 鄒城 county in Shantung.]

   • 2017 July, “The Sage and the People: The Confucian Revival in China”, in The Journal of Religion‎, volume 97, number 3, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0022-4189, OCLC 1183386980, page 419:

     In contrast to the official “rites devoid of ritual spirit” (223), during the top-down initiatives celebrating Confucius’s 2,558th birthday in 2007, ritual ceremonies organized by grassroots Confucian activists at the Confucius temple in Nishan and the Mencius temple in Zoucheng a few days after the official festival testified to the existence of a true ritual community, rediscovering or reinventing Confucian rituals, mostly through ancient texts. The authors believe that it is the emergence of this new ritualism among the people that will pave the way for a ritual reconstruction of Confucianism.