Jiexiu

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 介休 (Jièxiū, Jie's Rest). Supposedly named by Ji Chong'er, the Wen Duke of Jin, in his remorse for having killed his loyal subject Jie Zhitui and Jie's mother with an intentional forest fire in the region.

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Jiexiu

  1. A county-level city in Jinzhong, central Shanxi, China.
    • , Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:
      As one example of the wartime orientation of this propaganda, here is part of a leaflet prepared by the CCP-dominated Shansi Sacrifice League and captured by the Japanese Army in Chiehhsiu hsien, Shansi, in September 1938.]
    • , Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 10–11:
      He spent the rest of his life teaching at Chin-yang (T’ai-yuan), K’uo-hsien, and Chieh-hsiu in Shansi, using these years to master his favorite work, the Book of Changes (Chou i). []
      After his death at Chieh-hsiu in 1827 Chi-yü, his only son, collected Jun-ti’s miscellaneous essays from his students, which he published posthumously around 1831 in seventeen chüan under the title Tun-ken-chai i-shu (Remaining writings from the Tun-ken Study).
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    • 1987, Wolfgang Bartke, “Hou Wailu (侯外庐)”, in Who's Who in the People's Republic of China, 2nd edition, K. G. Saur, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 149:
      Hou was born in 1896 in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, into a landlord family.
    • 2017 November 17, Christopher Bodeen, “Human rights repression in China seen worsening under Xi”, in AP News, archived from the original on 08 March 2023:
      Gao’s freedom was short-lived, however. Less than three weeks later, the police tracked him to the city of Jiexiu in Shanxi province and searched house-to-house until they found him, Li Fawang, a supporter who helped him escape, told The Associated Press. Gao’s whereabouts are now unknown.

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