Kaixian

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 開縣／开县.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kīʹshyěnʹ

Proper noun

Kaixian

1. (historical) Synonym of Kaizhou.
   • [1908 January 7, “CHINA IN 1907.”, in The Hongkong Telegraph‎^[2], number 5660, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

     Avowedly anti-foreign disturbances on a serious scale were confined to the trouble at Kaihsien, Szechuan, at the beginning of June, when a number of missionaries were attacked and severély handled, […]]

   • 2003 March 25, Yan Tan, Yi Qian Wang, “Rural resettlement and land compensation in flooded areas: The case of the Three Gorges Project, China”, in Asia Pacific Viewpoint‎^[3], volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     For this purpose, the peri-urban zone in Kaixian County of the Chongqing reservoir section […] These construction workers, mostly carpenters and tillers, are mainly from Fengle.

   • 2007 November 15, “China defends mega dam, guards against disaster”, in Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 01 March 2023, Environment:

     A combo picture shows the demolition of the last county seat to be inundated by the Three Gorges reservoir, in Kaixian county of southwest China's Chongqing municipality, November 15, 2007. […] Kaixian was the last of Chongqing’s eight counties to finish relocation work for the project, the report said.

   • 2008, Asian and Pacific Migration Journal‎^[5], volume 17, Scalabrini Migration Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:

     Fuji town, a peri-urban area of the new county seat of Luxian, received 81 migrant households (276 persons) from Fengle town (a peri-urban district of Kaixian county).

   • 2011, Frank Dikötter, Mao's Great Famine‎^[6], Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 297–298:

     In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide.