Jixi

alternative Kisi · alternative Chi-hsi

1. A prefecture-level city of Heilongjiang, China.

   The fire at the Xinghua mine in the city of Jixi was brought under control on Saturday, and 21 bodies were recovered at the mine, owned by the Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

   2015 November 21, “Fire in Coal Mine Kills at Least 21 in China”, in The New York Times, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2015, Asia Pacific, page A8

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   Heilungkiang. The commander of the garrison of Chihsi was reported to have ordered an armed attack on a Red Guard rally on May 14, a number of Red Guards being wounded and 1,000 arrested, whilst 11 people were reported on June 12 to have been killed in fighting between 20,000 Maoists and anti-Maoists at Kiamusze.

   [1967, “The Wuhan Revolt and After”, in The Cultural Revolution in China: Its Origins and Course (Keesing's Research Report), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 50

   In Heilongjiang Province alone, 14 graphite deposits are reported, with 1 occurrence near Jixi City reportedly containing 300 Mmt of surface-minable material (31) and another large deposit located in the Heling area of Boli County.

   1987, Catharine T. Fogg; Edward H. Boyle, Jr., “Major CPEC Flake Graphite Producers”, in Flake and High Crystalline Graphite Availability—Market Economy Countries: A Minerals Availability Appraisal, number 9122, Bureau of Mines, United States Department of the Interior, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 40, column 1

alternative Chi-hsi

1. A county of Xuancheng, Anhui, China.

   A native of Chihsi hsien, Anhwei, Hu Shih was born in Shanghai.[…]Hu Shih and his mother returned to the family home in Chihsi in early 1895, but Hu Ch'uan remained in Taitung, where he was serving as prefectural magistrate and garrison commander, until summer.

   [1968, “Hu Shih”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167

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   Another Hu family, from Jixi County, sold tea; they were the ancestors of President Hu Jintao, whose father, while living in Jiangsu, tried to expand the tea business to Shanghai and Zhejiang, and exported tea leaves to Europe and the United States, wrote Lee Khoon Choy, a retired Singaporean journalist and politician, in a book, “Pioneers of Modern China.”

   2012 March 29, Edward Wong, “In Rural China, Temples to Past Merchant Wealth Endure”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2012, Asia Pacific