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.