Mi-chih

A form of Mizhi — A county of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Mizhi.

    CCP district organizations in the Shen-Kan-Ning Border Region were often named after a prominent county (hsien) located in the district. Thus, there are documents in the BIC from both the Sui-teh and Mi-chih county and district organizations of the CCP.

    1976, Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 64
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    Yang-chia-kou village, known throughout northern Shensi as the home of the “Kuang-yü t'ang”? Ma, was located in the sixth hsiang of Ho-ch’a ch’ü, Mi-chih county. The village was approximately forty li from the county seat, an equal distance from Chi-chen town, an additional forty li from Ssu-shih-li p’u, and fifteen li from T’ao-hua mao chen.

    1986, Evelyn Rawski, “The Ma Landlord of Yang-chia-kou in Late Ch'ing and Republican China”, in Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250

Origin

  1. Mandarin米脂
  2. EnglishMi-chih

From Mandarin 米脂 (Mǐzhī) Wade–Giles romanization: Mi³-chih¹.

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