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Kweiyang
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 貴陽.
Pronunciation
gwāʹyängʹ
Proper noun
en Guiyang.
en 1943 Hubert Freyn Szechwan and Sikang Free China's New Deal https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/ New York w:Macmillan Company 635748038 157 https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/page/157/ To the south, the original road from Chungking to Kweiyang in Kweichow has been supplemented by a second one between Luchow (a Yangtze port above Chungking) and Kunming in Yunnan.
en https://archive.org/details/adventuresdiscov00wals/mode/2up 1958 The Mountain Road Theodore H. White William Sloane Associates New York 14 https://archive.org/details/mountainroad00whitrich/page/n17/mode/ Up every pass, through every ancient trail, for weeks and months, the Chinese had been trekking to the shelter of their government on the far side of the barrier. But now, of all the passes, none was more crowded than the great cleft which led two hundred and sixty miles from Liuchow, in Kwangsi, up to Kweiyang, the capital of Kweichou.
en https://archive.org/details/asiaticlandbattl00dupu/mode/2up 1963 Asiatic Land Battles: Allied Victories in China and Burma Trevor Nevitt Dupy Franklin Watts, Linc. New York 44 https://archive.org/details/asiaticlandbattl00dupu/page/44/mode/ In mid-November, the Japanese began to advance westward toward Kweiyang, Kunming, and Chungking. To stop this new and serious threat, General Wedemeyer requested General Sultan to transfer to him two of the American-trained and -equipped Chinese divisions advancing in Burma. These were promptly shipped north to China by air. Additional reinforcements were gathered from other parts of the front in China. These forces, strongly supported by the Fourteenth Air Force, counterattacked east at Kweiyang. This unexpectedly strong opposition finally stopped the Japanese advance.
en May 25, 1975 Turmoil on mainland https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-05-25_16_20/ Free China Weekly XVI 20 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-05-25_16_20/page/n2/ Another poster which appeared in Kweiyang City in southern China March 25, says that Kweichow Province has become a “world of coupons.”
Further reading
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