Wuzhi
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武陟 (Wǔzhì).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌwuːˈd͡ʒiː/
Proper noun
Wuzhi
- A county of Jiaozuo, Henan, China.
- 2001, Randall A. Dodgen, “Confucian Engineers”, in Controlling the Dragon: Confucian Engineers and the Yellow River in the Late Imperial China (Chinese history), Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 43:
- Li Yumei apprenticed for the post of governor-general of the Henan conservancy by serving in a wide range of bureaucratic positions in the Yellow River region. A bagong of 1801, his first appointment was as magistrate of Wuzhi County in Henan. The remainder of his career was spent almost entirely along the river in Henan and Shandong, a fact that gave Li familiarity with both the gentry and the geography of the region.
- 2002, Du Runsheng, Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Du Runsheng (Chinese Studies / Economics), Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 43:
- In Wuzhi County in Henan Province, the supply and marketing cooperatives purchased fallen apples in time for processing. As a result, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of apples did not go to waste, and there are many other examples.
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Wuzhi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3496, column 2
- Wuzhi, Wu-chih, Wuchih at Google Ngram Viewer
- Wuzhi on Wikidata.Wikidata
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