Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jiexiu.
Soldiers and civilians in Chiehhsiu County, Shansi, have launched an upsurge of fighting drought and carrying out spring sowing.
1971 May 18 [1971 May 12], “Shansi Spring Farming”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 96, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 42 more examples
The Peiping People’s Daily recently reported that a debate had been held by members of the Chengkwan people’s commune in Chiehhsiu county, Shansi province, over the issue whether it was still necessary to have private homes in commune living.
1959 June, “Man's Inhumanity to Man Lest We Forget”, in Scarboro Missions, volume 40, number 5, Scarboro Foreign Mission Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 2As 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.
1962, Chalmers A. Johnson, “Peasant Nationalism in China”, in Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945, Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4
Origin
- Mandarin介休
- EnglishChiehhsiu
From Mandarin 介休 (Jièxiū), Wade–Giles romanization: Chieh⁴-hsiu¹.
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