Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Guiping.
When Hung and Feng returned to the area of Kuei-p’ing in the summer of 1849, they had to take note of this new type of leadership based on trances.
1971, Franz Michael, “Hung Hsiu-ch'üan and the Taiping Uprising”, in Chün-tu Hsüeh, editor, Revolutionary Leaders of Modern China, Oxford University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 262 more examples
Hung Hsiu-ch’üan and Feng Yun-shan, founders and propagators of the new pseudo-Christianity, converted dozens of communities during their missionary work in the years 1844-1850. These communities lay in a number of districts but principally in Kuei-hsien and Kuei-p’ing in southern Kwangsi.
1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174He obtained the chin-shih degree in 1595 and, after a number of official appointments, became the intendant of the Kuei-p’ing circuit in Kuangsi in 1624.
1988, Charles E. Ronan, Bonnie B. C. Oh, editors, East Meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773, Chicago: Loyola University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178
Origin
- Mandarin桂平
- EnglishKuei-p'ing
From Mandarin 桂平 (Guìpíng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuei⁴-pʻing².
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