Lucheng District, Changzhi Explained

Lucheng
Settlement Type:District
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Pushpin Map:Shanxi
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Shanxi
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:People's Republic of China
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Shanxi
Subdivision Type2:Prefecture-level city
Subdivision Name2:Changzhi
Population Density Km2:auto
Coordinates:36.3167°N 126°W
Timezone:China Standard
Utc Offset:+8

Lucheng is a District in Changzhi, in south-eastern Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China. As a division of Changzhi City, it covers an area of 615 km² and has a population of 210,000. Lucheng's economy is driven by coal industry and limestone mining.

A village in Lucheng county, Zhangzhuangcun (张庄村, pinyin: Zhāngzhuāngcūn), sometimes translated as Long Bow Village, was made famous by the book Fanshen written by William H. Hinton. The book chronicles the changes Zhangzhuangcun underwent after the defeat of occupying Japanese forces by the communist Eighth Route Army and the ensuing land reform movement by the Chinese Communist Party during second Chinese civil war. Hinton documented his return to Zhangzhuangcun years later in Fanshen, chronicling what had happened in the years since and describing how the Cultural Revolution affected the village.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 山西长治市部分行政区划调整:上党区、屯留区和潞城区亮相. 2018-09-30.