Kuangshan

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A form of Guangshan — A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Guangshan.

    Around 1571 he was given the post of School-Inspector of Kuangshan County in Honan Province.

    1960, Hui-chien (張慧劍) Chang, “Travels”, in Li Shih-chen— Great Pharmacologist of Ancient China, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48
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    In 1965 a bronze seal with the characters “Kuan Chun Wan Hu Fu”¹³ (“Command of Ten Thousand Troops”) was unearthed in Kuangshan County,¹⁴ Honan Province.

    1978, "Wenwu" (Cultural Relics) Magazine Reporter, “New Archaeological Finds: A Preliminary Summary of Important Discoveries”, in New Archaeological Finds in China (II): More Discoveries During the Cultural Revolution, 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, pages 4, 21

    Not only production teams and communes but entire counties were declared corrupt and unstable. For example, the first secretary of Kuangshan county in calamity stricken Honan was cited as a typical bad element, and apparently all of Hsinyang special district where Kuangshan is located was endangered by widespread disturbances due to the activities of alleged class enemies.

    1979, Frederick C. Teiwes, “Rectification and "Verdict Reversal" during the Crisis Years, 1960-1962”, in Politics & Purges in China: Rectification and the Decline of Party Norms, 1950-1965, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 456
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