Kolan

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A form of Kelan — A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Kelan.

    (Yin Ta-han), an old poor peasant of the (Pinghoukou) brigade in Kolan; County;, was seriously ill with asthma. Despite this, he went to a meeting to criticize swindlers like Liu Shao-chi.

    1972 March 7 [1972 March 5], “Party Promotes Criticism Campaign in Shansi Region”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 46, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page D 10
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    Some 29 peasant-physicians have just completed their 30-month course of training in a remote mountain village in Kolan County, Shansi Province, north China.[…] The school was set up by the Kolan county hospital in 1963.

    1966 May 20 [1966 May 19], “NEW TYPE OF PEASANT-DOCTORS BEING TRAINED”, in Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 98, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page CCC 7

    A MEDICAL group made up of members of the Traditional Chinese Medical Research Institute and the No. 1 Hospital affiliated to the Shansi Medical College in Shansi Province has been treating pregnancy outside the uterus by a combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine without any operations since 1958.[…] In Kolan County a woman commune member had a rare complication of excessive bleeding from the bowels in addition from bleeding into the abdominal cavity and other common symptoms of ectopic pregnancy.

    1972 April 7, “Treating Ectopic Pregnancy Without Operation”, in Peking Review, volume 15, number 14, →OCLC, page 22

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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