Information and bibliography on Zhangzhou

[Huang Jialuo]

Hi everyone.

I wanted to ask anyone who is willing to help to please help me get info of a particular city in province in China called Fujian. The city's name is Zhangzhou. You see: my friend entered a Chinese seminar because he wanted to learn more about China, which is actually great... (I love Chinese culture... guess that makes me biased) and part of this seminar is doing a big essay about a place in China which he was forced to choose (Zhangzhou,Fujian). I know it is a lack of organization on his behalf, but he is currently under a lot of stress (final exams) and he has to make this essay to hand in TOMORROW. So you can understand his stress, and maybe some of you can personally relate to it (I know I can )

Basically his essay is about:

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  The economy of the place
  The trading opportunities of the place
  How the province has been developing
  What is the life like there... to see what the people can produce and what they might need.
  

Please, he would appreciate very much if you could help him today.

Thanks.

[ChineseSpeaker]

I am a native Chinese.

As I know, there is no province in China called Zangzhou

But there is a province named Guizhou in the South west of China.

[rootfool]

As I know, there is no province in China called Zangzhou

maybe you should write hanzi so we can help you..

[Huang Jialuo]

Oh, thanks.

Forgive my ignorance.

I took the assignment given to me by my friend without questioning his reliability.

Yes, there is no province called Zhangzhou.

He was mistaken... (as many instances before).. and the province's name is Fujian. He says the city is Zhangzhou.

Please still help.

I'll punch him another day for you both, hehe.

[rootfool]

is it 漳(zhang)州？

[Huang Jialuo]

This is really embarrassing. Sorry everyone.

I have also been looking for this mythical Zangzhou. And I think you are actually correct "rootfool".

Please disregard the previously mentioned Zangzhou and instead follow the name Zhangzhou which is in Fujian.

I am really sorry for making some of you lose your time with these reprehensible mistakes.

Next time a friend asks me for a favor, I will verify most of the data before posting it.

[Stefani]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangzhou

For a start. Sorry, my ancestors came from there, but I have never been to China (and I am still a beginner at Chinese).

Good luck to your friend!

[Huang Jialuo]

Stefani thanks for your support (though I must say I had looked at Wikipedia already, but had found that there was nothing there that could help my friend's essay. Wikipedia is actually very reliable and resourceful most of the time, but it knows very little about Zhangzhou at the moment). However, by what is said in the brackets, I don't mean to take merit from your quite helpful actions. Not many come to forums like these and help strangers who want to help their sometimes not so reliable friends. So really any contribution at this point is considered a valuable something (though if anyone else could send more info that would be great).

Thanks. And I'll tell him you said good luck. He will probably be grateful for the words of support.

[rootfool]

see here.

http://www.zhangzhou.gov.cn/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=9161

http://www.sowto.com/news/zzjd/Index.html

hope it's helpful.

but all imformation are written by chinese.