Kaihsienkung
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 開弦弓／开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-hsien²-kung¹.
Proper noun
Kaihsienkung
- Alternative form of Kaixiangong
- 1939, Fei, Hsiao-tung (費孝通), Peasant Life in China (江村經濟), London: George Routledge and Sons, OCLC 823027574, OL 20963296M, pages 9-10:
- The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.
- 1958, Service, Elman R., Profiles in Ethnology, Harper & Row, published 1963, LCCN 63-9050, OCLC 917241893, OL 20944960M, page 451:
- At the time of Fei’s study, Kaihsienkung had two headmen. The elder of the two did not deal with the higher government, having allowed a younger man to fill the official post.
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