Ganzhou

English

Alternative forms

• Kanchow

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 贛州／赣州 (Gànzhōu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡɑnˈd͡ʒoʊ/

Proper noun

Ganzhou

1. A prefecture-level city in Jiangxi, China.
   • 1990, Zedong Mao, translated by Roger Thompson, Report from Xunwu‎^[1], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:

     Most leather pillows, letter paper, envelopes, enamelware, fans, and water pipes come from Ganzhou and are of the highest quality. The stationery from Ganzhou is made of paper manufactured in China; that from Mei County is made with foreign paper.

   • 2016 February 10, “China reports first case of imported Zika virus”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 31 May 2022‎^[3]:

     The man from the southern city of Ganzhou had been treated in Venezuela on Jan. 28 before returning home on Feb. 5 via Hong Kong and the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a statement.

   • 2017 May 30, Keith Bradsher, “China Detains Activist Who Worked at Manufacturer of Ivanka Trump Shoes”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2017, Business Day‎^[5]:

     They were last seen in Ganzhou, a large city in southern Jiangxi Province. It is unclear whether the other two were detained.
     The group had been investigating labor conditions at the two factories, one in Ganzhou and another in Dongguan. Their preliminary findings, which had not yet been made public, detail that workers were subject to exceptionally long hours.

Descendants

• Translingual: Ganzhousaurus

Translations

prefecture-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 贛州／赣州 (zh) (Gànzhōu)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gaozhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1316, column 3