Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Gejiu.
The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.
1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 972 more examples
He released Min Li-sung when he publicly “admitted his errors,” but he continued to hold the son, who refused to repent.¹¹ He thus warned landowners in the Ko-chiu area not to deal with the French.
1973, Roger V. Des Forges, “Leading Society”, in Hsi-liang and the Chinese National Revolution, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 104–105According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test the experiment. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.
1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 56–57
Origin
- Mandarin箇舊 /个旧
- EnglishKo-chiu
From Mandarin 箇舊 /个旧 (Gèjiù), Wade–Giles romanization: Ko⁴-chiu⁴.
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