Meanings
- historicalSynonym of Kaizhou.
Fuji town, a peri-urban area of the new county seat of Luxian, received 81 migrant households (276 persons) from Fengle town (a peri-urban district of Kaixian county).
2008, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, volume 17, Scalabrini Migration Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 214 more examples
Avowedly anti-foreign disturbances on a serious scale were confined to the trouble at Kaihsien, Szechuan, at the beginning of June, when a number of missionaries were attacked and severély handled,[…]
[1908 January 7, “CHINA IN 1907.”, in The Hongkong Telegraph, number 5660, →OCLC, page 3, column 3For this purpose, the peri-urban zone in Kaixian County of the Chongqing reservoir section[…]These construction workers, mostly carpenters and tillers, are mainly from Fengle.
2003 March 25, Yan Tan, Yi Qian Wang, “Rural resettlement and land compensation in flooded areas: The case of the Three Gorges Project, China”, in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLCA combo picture shows the demolition of the last county seat to be inundated by the Three Gorges reservoir, in Kaixian county of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, November 15, 2007.[…]Kaixian was the last of Chongqing’s eight counties to finish relocation work for the project, the report said.
2007 November 15, “China defends mega dam, guards against disaster”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2023, EnvironmentIn Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide.
2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298Synonyms: Kaizhou
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Kaizhou.
Origin
- Mandarin開縣 /开县
- EnglishKaixian
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 開縣 /开县.
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