Weishih

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English

Etymology

From Mandarin 尉氏 Wade–Giles romanization: Wei⁴-shih⁴.

Proper noun

Weishih

  1. Alternative form of Weishi.
    • 1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 160–161:
      He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County.
    • 1969, “Chairman Mao's Good Pupil, Chiao Yu-lu”, in Chinese Literature [中国文学], number 9, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, Reportage, page 8:
      Chiao Yu-lu used to work in Weishih County, Honan Province. At the Tenth Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Party Chairman Mao issued to the Chinese people the great call: “Never forget class struggle.” The regional Party committee decided to send Chiao Yu-lu to Lankao where the class struggle was acute and natural calamities were serious. They gave him the necessary instructions.