Gushi
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 固始 (Gùshǐ).
Proper noun
Gushi
- A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
- , Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 116:
- In certain places, the Nien succeeded in entirely supplanting the regularly constituted government authority. The result could actually be a considerable improvement for some of the local residents. In Honan’s Ku-shih County, for example, poor people seeking a settlement of their problems flocked to the local Nien chieftain for help.]
- 2003 May 8, John Pomfret, “WHO to Probe Spread Of SARS in Rural China”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2023:
- In Gushi County in the southern province of Henan, for example, returning workers have been ordered by the government into quarantine centers at empty schoolhouses and on the grounds of bankrupt factories. […]
Gushi authorities also defended a program to charge migrants for checkups despite a central government regulation promising free health care for SARS patients.
"We only take suspected patients to our ward for isolation and observation," said a health official in Gushi who identified himself only as Zhang.
- 2008 January 13, Howard W. French, “Lives of Poverty, Untouched by China’s Boom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 May 2012, Asia Pacific:
- Here in Henan’s rural Gushi County, only 73,000 of 1.4 million farmers fall below the official poverty level of $94 a year, which is supposed to be enough to cover basic needs, including maintaining a daily diet of 2,000 calories.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Gushi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1476, column 1