Gui Xian

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See also: Guixian and Guìxiàn

English

Proper noun

Gui Xian

  1. Alternative form of Guixian
    • , Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174:
      Hung Hsiu-ch’üan and Feng Yun-shan, founders and propagators of the new pseudo-Christianity, converted dozens of communities during their missionary work in the years 1844-1850. These communities lay in a number of districts but principally in Kuei-hsien and Kuei-p’ing in southern Kwangsi.]
    • , Oxford University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20:
      Branches (fen-hui) of the God Worshippers Society were established wherever there were enough members, and were therefore scattered widely. They were more numerous in Kuei-hsien, where some of Hung Hsiu-ch’üan’s relatives lived and where Hung and Feng had visited in 1844, and in the district of Kuei-p’ing, where Feng had centered his efforts around his headquarters at Tzu-ching-shan.]