Zigong

Proper noun

Zigong

1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
   • Peking Radio broadcast about one particular department in the Szechwan city of Tzu-kung illustrated how easily the bureaucrats could influence the soldiers:
     There was a close connection between the department and the . . . Tzukung Municipal CCP Committee. Work was carried out by the department...[1971, Thomas Jay Matthews, “The Cultural Revolution in Szechwan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 129
   • In Tzukung, Szechuan province, extremely thin and soft strips that are almost transparent are cut from love bamboo and used to weave objects with “hidden designs” like those of figured silk. The warp and weft strips must cross at least a thousand times.[1978 August, Chia-shu Wang, “The Artcraft of Weaving”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 3