Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Guixian.
Hung Hsiu-ch’üan and Feng Yun-shan, founders and propagators of the new pseudo-Christianity, converted dozens of communities during their missionary work in the years 1844-1850. These communities lay in a number of districts but principally in Kuei-hsien and Kuei-p’ing in southern Kwangsi.
[1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1741 more example
Branches (fen-hui) of the God Worshippers Society were established wherever there were enough members, and were therefore scattered widely. They were more numerous in Kuei-hsien, where some of Hung Hsiu-ch’üan’s relatives lived and where Hung and Feng had visited in 1844, and in the district of Kuei-p’ing, where Feng had centered his efforts around his headquarters at Tzu-ching-shan.
[1971, Franz Michael, “Hung Hsiu-ch'üan and the Taiping Uprising”, in Chün-tu Hsüeh, editor, Revolutionary Leaders of Modern China, Oxford University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20
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