Kaixian

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 開縣／开县.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Kaixian

  1. (historical) Synonym of Kaizhou.
    • , number 5660, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:
      Avowedly anti-foreign disturbances on a serious scale were confined to the trouble at Kaihsien, Szechuan, at the beginning of June, when a number of missionaries were attacked and severély handled, […]]
    • 2003 March 25, Yan Tan, Yi Qian Wang, “Rural resettlement and land compensation in flooded areas: The case of the Three Gorges Project, China”, in Asia Pacific Viewpoint‎, volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      For this purpose, the peri-urban zone in Kaixian County of the Chongqing reservoir section […] These construction workers, mostly carpenters and tillers, are mainly from Fengle.
    • 2007 November 15, “China defends mega dam, guards against disaster”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 01 March 2023, Environment:
      A combo picture shows the demolition of the last county seat to be inundated by the Three Gorges reservoir, in Kaixian county of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, November 15, 2007. […] Kaixian was the last of Chongqing’s eight counties to finish relocation work for the project, the report said.
    • 2008, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal‎, volume 17, Scalabrini Migration Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:
      Fuji town, a peri-urban area of the new county seat of Luxian, received 81 migrant households (276 persons) from Fengle town (a peri-urban district of Kaixian county).
    • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine‎, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298:
      In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide.

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kaihsien or K’ai-hsien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 895, column 1
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