Meaning of Tzu-chung | Babel Free

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“There are, of course, a number of counties where the descendants of pre-Ch'ing natives still constitute a significant portion of the local population. Tzu-chung county, midway between Ch'eng-tu and Chungking testifies: Tsu-chung does not have any native clans that can be traced back more than six hundred years. [Among the old clans] six- or seven- tenths came from Hupei during the early Ming period.”

“In 1927 and 1928, the city was the headquarters of a garrison area that stretched from Tzu-chung county to the west through the rich sugar-producing region around Nei-chiang, eastward to Nan-ch'uan near the Kweichow border.”

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