Wuhsiang
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 武鄉／武乡 Wade–Giles romanization: Wu³-hsiang¹.
Proper noun
Wuhsiang
- Synonym of Wuxiang
- 1952 July-August, “Marriage Law Brings Happiness”, in China Reconstructs, number 4, China Welfare Institute, ISSN 0009-4447, OCLC 1554324, page 46, column 1:
- THE Marriage Law is just over two years old, yet it has already changed life in the Chinese countryside.
In Wuhsiang county, Shansi province, for example, 82 per cent of the 1,695 marriages that have taken place since the law was passed were based on free choice of partners — not arranged by parents or families as in the past.
- 1967, Leng, Shao-chuan, “People's Justice Under the Common Program”, in Justice in Communist China: A Survey of the Judicial System of the Chinese People's Republic, Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana Publications, LCCN 67-14398, OCLC 875696166, page 40:
- As a result of deficiency of laws and judicial personnel, there were many cases of incompetence, graft, and miscarriage of justice in the operation of the "people's courts." In Wuhsiang county of Shansi province, for instance, the judicial organ exacted a confession from Wu P'u-kuei through "third degree" methods and sentenced him to death for an alleged crime he had never committed.
- 1983, Hinton, William, “Retreat”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, LCCN 84-40004, OCLC 802152005, page 285:
- Soon Anhui “experiences” were being reproduced in Southeast Shansi. Wuhsiang County collectives sent 7,000 out of 15,000 draft animals back to their former owners.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Wuhsiang.
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