Zhuozhou

Proper noun

Zhuozhou

1. A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China.
   • On June 4 the Boxers set fire to the Huangts’un station of the Peking-Tientsin Railway. General Nieh Shih-ch’êng’s troops promptly arrived, and a pitched battle was fought in which several hundred Boxers were killed.³⁵ On the 6th it was reported that railway communication between Peking and...[1967, Chester C. Tan, “The Manchu Court and the Boxers”, in The Boxer Catastrophe (History), New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65
   • “To protect Beijing, no one cares if we in Hebei are being flooded,” a resident of a village on Zhuozhou’s outskirts complained on Friday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal for criticizing the government.
   • Another Zhuozhou resident stood at the edge of a field next to his partly submerged village on the city’s outskirts on Friday, waiting for lingering, thigh-deep water to subside.2023 August 4, Keith Bradsher, Li You, Joy Dong, Claire Fu, “Anger Builds in Towns Deliberately Flooded, in Part, to Save Beijing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...