Heze
See also: hēzé
English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 菏澤／菏泽 (Hézé).
Proper noun
Heze
- A prefecture-level city in Shandong, China.
- [1999, Pepper, Suzanne, Civil War in China: The Political Struggle 1945-1949, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, LCCN 99-10885, OCLC 40602875, page 367:
- First, Communist rule had already proved unhealthy for certain kinds of businessmen in the liberated areas due to the ban on trade in many types of non-essential consumer items. We have already noted the resentment this caused among merchants in and around the town of Hotse, Shantung, even though the Communists were trying to be “especially polite” to the business community there.]
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Translations
prefecture-level city
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heze”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1277, column 1