Kweichow

English

KWEICHOW MOUTAI
贵州茅台酒

Pronunciation

• enPR: kwāʹchouʹ, gwāʹjōʹ

Proper noun

Kweichow

1. Alternative form of Guizhou
   • 1937, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China‎^[3], Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91:

     "Famine conditions continue to be reported in Honan, Anhui, Shensi, Kansu, Szechuan, and Kweichow. Quite evidently the country faces one of the most severe famines of many years, and thousands have already died. A recent survey by the Szechuan Famine Relief Commission discovered that 30,000,000 people are now in the famine belt of that province, where bark and 'Goddess-of-Mercy' earth are being consumed by tens of thousands. There are said to be over 400,000 famine refugees in Shensi, over a million in Kansu, some 7,000,000 in Honan, and 3,000,000 in Kweichow. The famine in Kweichow is admitted by the official Central News to be the most serious in 100 years, affecting sixty districts of the province."

   • 1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, Rural China Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century‎^[4], University of Washington Press, page 238:

     The first i-hsüeh (charity schools) were started in 1702, when the Board of Rites received imperial approval to establish them outside the Ch'ung-wen gate of the imperial city. Three years later similar institutions were authorized for Kweichow province for the benefit of the "sons and younger brothers" of the chieftains of tribal groups.

   • 1967 February 1, “Fifth Chinese City Claimed by Maoists; Maoists Claim the Control of Fifth Chinese City”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 March 2023, page 1‎^[6]:

     The Peking radio said today that Mao Tse-tung's forces had gained control of a fifth major city, Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichow Province.

   • 1977 April 10, “Railway system seriously undermined”, in Free China Weekly‎^[7], volume XVIII, number 14, Taipei, page 3:

     "Radio Kweichow" reported April 1 that high officials and cadres of Kweichow province had met to discuss "the crimes of the gang of four and their black agents in the Kweichow province for the damage they had done to the railways and social order."

   • 1993 October 20, “James T.C. Liu”, in Town Topics‎^[8], volume 48, number 33, Princeton, N.J., page 41:

     Prof. Liu's family was from Kuei-yang in Kweichow, China, and he grew up in Shanghai.

   • 2014, Lawrence Osborne, The Ballad of a Small Player‎^[9], London: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 41:

     I ordered a bottle of Kweichow Moutai from 1927, a liquor made from sorghum that people say is the most expensive Chinese beverage ever made.

Further reading

• “Kweichow, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Kweichow”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kweichow” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guizhou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[10], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 1: “The name may appear as Kweichow.”