Talk:Zhou (administrative division)

Proposed move

can we move this to Zhou (subnational entity) ? Any concerns? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 00:10, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Um... sure, but any reasons in particular though? -- ran (talk) 00:19, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Category:Subnational_entities - I harmonized nearly all disambiguation with "(subnational entity)" , I am not sure which version is better. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 16:23, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Improvement

Article could use list of Han zhou from zh:东汉行政区划. — LlywelynII 06:54, 16 August 2011 (UTC)

Sources for future article expansion

• Li Shizhen (2017), Hua Linfu; et al. (eds.), Ben Cao Gang Mu Dictionary, Vol. II: Geographical and Administrative Designations, Berkeley: University of California Press.

has an overview of imperial Chinese administrative divisions. — LlywelynII 14:05, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

From page 27 on,

• Shih Hsiang-lin (2013), Jian'an Literature Revisited: Poetic Dialogues in the Last Three Decades of the Han Dynasty (PDF), Seattle: University of Washington.

has good and sourced discussion of the initial reasons and early development of the zhou in the Western Han. — LlywelynII 22:03, 22 December 2022 (UTC)