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Ganzhou
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Gānzhōu Gànzhōu
English
Alternative forms
en Kanchow
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Ganzhou/Kan-chou/Gan 38°57′N 100°37′E, romanization of the en cmn 贛州.
Pronunciation
en /ˌɡɑnˈd͡ʒoʊ/
gän′jō′Kanchow or Kan-chou 904 3
en Gan zhou
Proper noun
en prefecture-level city p/Jiangxi c/China.
en 1990 w:Mao Zedong Roger Thompson Report from Xunwu https://archive.org/details/reportfromxunwu00maoz/ w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-1678-1 89-21776 924294101 2200194M 71 https://archive.org/details/reportfromxunwu00maoz/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.
en February 10, 2016 China reports first case of imported Zika virus https://web.archive.org/web/20220531163908/https://apnews.com/article/50119cd01e1c47b5a80b6c25a954f3ee 31 May 2022 w:AP News 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.
en MAY 30, 2017 w:Keith Bradsher China Detains Activist Who Worked at Manufacturer of Ivanka Trump Shoes w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20170531054718/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/business/labor-activist-detained-ivanka-trump-factory.html 21 October 2017 0362-4331 1645522 Business Day 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 genus
Translations
prefecture-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 贛州
Mandarin: cmn 贛州 Gànzhōu
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Gaozhou Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1316 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1316/ 3