Dazhou
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See also: dàzhōu
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 達州／达州 (Dázhōu).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Dazhou
- A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
- 2010, Pamela Kyle Crossley, The Wobbling Pivot, China Since 1800: An Interpretive History, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
- Dazhou, Sichuan, has for years been showing the stress of popular anger against its mining industries, prostitu- tion rings, drug problems and a poorly managed outbreak of avian flu.
- 2013 September 15, “China road accident kills 16 including 11 students”, in AP News, archived from the original on 09 June 2022:
- A passenger bus collided with a truck and plunged into a riverbed in southwest China, killing 16 people including 11 students, authorities said.
The accident happened on Sunday afternoon in a village in Dazhou city in Sichuan province.
- 2020 March 27, Dan Bilefsky, Ceylan Yeginsu, “Of ‘Covidivorces’ and ‘Coronababies’: Life During a Lockdown”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 27, 2020, Protests in China:
- Dazhou, a city in southwestern Sichuan Province, received close to 100 filings for divorce in less than three weeks, an official who handled divorce filings said in a video interview, adding that there was a large backlog of cases.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Dazhou.
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