Queshan

Their retreat to Ying-shang was part of a new plan to turn westward into Honan province along the route taken in February by Ch’en Te-ts’ai, who had tried to capture Hsin-ts’ai with the help of a local Nien force and afterward gone farther west past Ch’üeh-shan to lay siege to Nan-yang beginning March 10th.

[1973, Jen Yu-wen, “The Drive through Chekiang toward Shanghai (1861-1862)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 464–465

The territorial base that each network controlled corresponded neatly with a subcounty administrative unit. In Queshan county, for instance, the Red Spears were divided into the Red, Yellow, Green, White, and Black Spears. The Red Spears, the dominant group in the southeast, had 100,000 men and 200 guns, while the Yellow Spears, who occupied the northern part of the county, numbered 40,000 with 100 guns. A mixture of various sectarians coexisted in the west of the county.

1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 67

Li Jinsheng wanted to study law. But because he is blind, virtually the only profession he could train for in China was massage. So he did that and set up a massage business in Queshan County, Henan Province.[…] Reached by telephone, officials in Queshan County’s education department declined to comment.

2013 December 18, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Barred From College Entrance Exams, in a Blow for China’s Blind”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2023, Sinosphere