Dingzhou

Proper noun

Dingzhou

1. A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China.
   • 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.1996, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Arts of the Tang Court, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47
   • The Communist Party chief of Dingzhou, a city in northern Hebei Province, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in one the bloodiest rural clashes in recent years, family members of the victims said.2006, Joseph Kahn, “World Briefing | Asia: China: City Chief Gets Life In Land Clash”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023, World
2. (historical) Synonym of Ding Prefecture, a prefecture of imperial China with its seat at Dingzhou.

   Synonyms:

   Ding Prefecture, Lunu, Boling, Dingxian, Tingsien, Tingchow