Definition of "Dingzhou"
Dingzhou
proper noun
A county-level city in Baoding Prefecture, Hebei, China.
Quotations
Their colour, once described as silver or snow, was long held to be an achievement of the potters of the Song dynasty, but excavations at the Dingzhou kilns in Hebei as early as 1941 have established that white ware was already in production at that location during the ninth century.
1996, Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky, Arts of the Tang Court, Oxford University Press, page 47
The Communist Party chief of Dingzhou, a city in northern Hebei Province, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in one the bloodiest rural clashes in recent years, family members of the victims said.
2006, Joseph Kahn, “World Briefing | Asia: China: City Chief Gets Life In Land Clash”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 March 2023, World
Dingzhou residents who lost family in a land row insist on official probe, saying five convicted in court are scapegoatsResidents of Dingzhou, Hebei province, where six villagers were beaten to death last summer over a land dispute, have been taking turns to petition authorities in Beijing for further investigations into the case despite a court verdict last month.Although a court in Handan city sentenced four people to death and Dingzhou party secretary He Feng to life in prison for their roles in the violent crackdown, the villagers say they are convinced the five are only scapegoats and Beijing must act to bring the real criminals to justice.
2006 March 27, Minnie Chan, “Villagers keep up demands for justice”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 05 June 2022