Kaying

English

Etymology

From Chinese 嘉應／嘉应, likely via Cantonese.

Proper noun

Kaying

1. A former prefecture of Guangdong, China; now Meizhou.
   • 1940, John Joseph Considine, When the Sorghum Was High: A Narrative Biography of Father A. Donovan of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, A Maryknoll Missioner Slain by Bandits in Manchukuo‎^[1], Longmans, Green and Co., page 181:

     Four of the Maryknoll territories are in South China, the Vicariates of Kongmoon, Wuchow and Kaying and the Prefecture of Kweilin.

   • 1978 November 29, “Rev. John F. Donovan, A Maryknoll Vicar, 71”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 February 2018, Section B, page 12‎^[3]:

     He had been vicar‐general from 1956 to 1966. He was previously a missionary in Kaying in southern China, receiving the assignment in 1938.

   • 1990, Albert J. Nevins, American Martyrs: From 1542‎^[4], Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 139–141:

     In 1925, the Paris society offered Maryknoll another territory in the northeast corner of Kwangtung Province, inhabited by Hakka-speaking people. Father Ford was put in charge, picking Kaying, the Hakka cultural center, as his own main base, and set about developing the area.

   • 1994, Nicole Constable, Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits: A Hakka Community in Hong Kong‎^[5], University of California, →ISBN, page 36:

     Interestingly, Nakagawa cites a Chinese translation of Campbell that was published in 1951 by the Perak Public Association of the Hakkas and also in 1923 in Kaying, translated by a Hakka of Meixian district.

   • 2016, Landon J. DePasquale, “Ford, Francis Xavier”, in George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, editors, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States‎^[6], volume 2, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 904, column 1:

     After his ordination, he was sent as a Missionary to Guangdong, China. He was appointed the first bishop of Kaying on June 18, 1935. While he was the bishop of Kaying, he built a seminary for the education of native-born Chinese priests.