Meaning of Zhuozhou | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Baoding, Hebei, China.

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“On June 4 the Boxers set⟳ fire to the Huangts’un station of the Peking-Tientsin Railway. General Nieh Shih-ch’êng’s troops promptly arrived, and a pitched battle was fought in which several hundred Boxers were killed.³⁵ On the 6th it was reported that railway communication between Peking and Tientsin was interrupted.³⁶ The day before the Boxers at Chochou had attacked the Kaopeitien station and destroyed the Peiho Bridge of the Paotingfu Railway,³⁷ setting fire to more than ten villages south of Paoting.³⁸”

““To protect⟳ Beijing, no one cares if we in Hebei are being flooded,” a resident of a village on Zhuozhou’s outskirts complained on Friday morning, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal for criticizing the government. Another Zhuozhou resident stood at the edge of a field next to his partly submerged village on the city’s outskirts on Friday, waiting for lingering, thigh-deep water to subside.”

“So far, at least 22 people have⟳ died in Beijing and the surrounding Hebei province this week amid the heavy rains. State media reported Saturday that waters have⟳ started to recede in the hard-hit Hebei city of Zhuozhou.”

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