Chikan
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 赤坎 (Chìkǎn).
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Proper noun
Chikan
- A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
- 2017 August 28, He Huifeng, “Families who’ve lived in old Chinese town for generations being kicked out to make way for tourists”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on August 28, 2017, China:
- Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction.
It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby Kaiping diaolous – fortified, multi-storey dwellings – were put on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 2007.