Gaoping

alternative Kao-p'ing

1. A county-level city of Jincheng, Shanxi, China.

   […]T'ang-ho County to do business from their original home in Kao-p'ing (高平) County in Shansi Province, more than[…]

   [1991, Lu-jun Yin, Against Destiny: Feng Yu-Lan and a New Hermeneutics of Confucianism (Dissertation), Stanford University, →OCLC, page 11

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   Revolutionary committees at all levels in Kaoping County have seriously implemented Chairman Mao's instructions on developing pig breeding and have developed pig breeding in a big way for the revolution.

   [1970 October 14 [1970 October 12], “Pig Breeding Studied, Improved by Shansi County”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 200, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page F 5

   Interlude at Kaoping We left Tsincheng early one morning for Changchih County and drove first to Kaoping where we halted for a while to see a modern silk weaving and dyeing factory set up in 1960 there, which by 1971 was producing 1,850,000 metres of woven and dyed material, with a value of 4,200,000 yuan. Kaoping I had known in the past as a famous place for its pears, which are especially juicy.

   [1973, Rewi Alley, “New Life of a 3,000-year-old City and Its Surroundings”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XII, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20, column 1

   Feng Ying-ts’e is a native of Chi-t’an Village, Kao-p’ing hsien, Shansi Province, and a member of San-chia People’s Commune there.[...]Under the Party's direction, she was involved in communication and liaison missions in the border area of the three hsien of Chin-ch’eng, Ling-ch’uan, and Kao-p’ing.

   [1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 110, 196

   But it said the pit dates to the cruelest military campaign of the Warring States period of 476 to 221 B.C. When commander Zhao Kuo was killed, 300,000 of his troops surrendered to rival Qin forces. All were buried alive. The pit was discovered in Gaoping, a city 350 miles southwest of Beijing in central China’s Shaanxi^([sic – meaning Shanxi]) province.

   1995 October 31, “Archaeologists Find Remains of Soldiers Buried Alive 2,000 Years Ago”, in AP News, archived from the original on 17 Mar 2023

   More senior officials from Shanxi are under investigation for alleged corruption, the latest in a series of anti-graft probes focused on the coal-rich province. The government's anti-corruption investigation department said yesterday that the mayor of Gaoping, Yang Xiaobo, and the deputy head of the work committee for the provincial Communist Party, Guo Zhongshi, were accused of "serious violations of discipline", a term often used to describe graft.

   2014 May 1, Zhang Hong, “More Shanxi officials investigated for corruption”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2014, China