Kuei-chou
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See also: Kueichou
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Wade–Giles romanization Kuei⁴-chou¹ of Mandarin 貴州/贵州 (Guìzhōu).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Kuei-chou
- Alternative form of Guizhou
- 1947, Joseph F. Rock, The Ancient Na-khi Kingdom of Southwest China[2], volume 1, Harvard University Press, page 222:
- On the eastern mountain slopes of Nga-ba there is a meadow called Nga-ba tsi-mä gko, east of the trail leading to the hamlets of Nga-tz inhabited by Na-khi as well as Miao-tzu 苗子. The latter are immigrants from Kuei-chou.
- 1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming[3], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxiv:
- In addition, he was banished to Lung-chʻang in modern Kuei-chou, which was then inhabited by the barbarian Miao tribes, to become an insignificant executive in a dispatch station, whose duty it was to provide horses for rapid transportation. He started the journey in the spring of 1507 and arrived a year later, stopping over on the way to visit his father. Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide. Some accounts, to make the event more dramatic, have him escape by sea from Hangchow to Fukien and thence to Kuei-chou. More reliable chronicles, however, have recorded his trip overland from Hangchow to Kuei-chou. In Kuei-chou he taught the Miao aboriginals to build houses and live in them.
- 2003, “Chʻang-Kan Village Song”, in David Hinton, transl., The Bedford Anthology of World Literature[4], volume 2, Bedford/St. Martin's, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 334:
- The Chʻü-tʻang was a hazardous gorge along the Yangtze River near the remote city of Kuei-chou (Guizhou); the dangerous Yen-yü Rock lies in the midst of the river in the gorge.
Translations
[edit]Guizhou — see Guizhou
References
[edit]- ^ Guizhou, Wade-Giles romanization Kuei-chou, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kweichow or Kuei-chou”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 998, column 3
Further reading
[edit]- “Kuei-chou”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Kuei-chou” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.