Kweisui

English Alternative forms en Kuei-sui Guisui Etymology Borrowed from en cmn - 歸綏. Pronunciation gwā′swā′Kweisui or Kuei-sui 999 1 Controlled by Japanese during 1937-45, it was (as Hohohoto) en Kwei sui Proper noun en historical en Hohhot. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226193/mode/2up 1948 Eastern Asia Thomas E. Ennis Walter Consuelo Langsam J. B. Lippincott Company 434 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226193/page/n441/mode/ Japan took advantage of Chinese defeats in Inner Mongolia. The southeastern portion of Chahar was converted into the autonomous state of South Chahar (Ch’a-nan), with headquarters at Kalgan. The autonomous state of North Shansi (Chin-pei) was carved out, with its capital at Tatung. The largest, the United Leagues of Mongolia, including all Suiyuan and most of Chahar, was administered from Kweisui. A fourth unit, the Federal Council of the Mongolian Borderland (Meng Chiang), was planned by the Japanese. The governments of these marionette states were held by the bayonets of the Japanese Kwantung Army. en https://archive.org/details/landof500million0000cres/mode 1955 Land of the 500 Million; A Geography of China George B. Cressy McGraw-Hill Company, Inc. 93 https://archive.org/details/landof500million0000cres/page/92/mode/ Between Paotow and Kweisui in the northeastern corner of the Ordos Desert, hundreds of miles of irrigation canals were dug during the 1920’s with the hope of irrigating several hundred thousand acres. Large amounts of government and famine relief money were invested, and modern engineering works were constructed. The project proved largely a failure and is now almost abandoned. en https://archive.org/details/chinaoneveofcomm0000unse_y8m5/mode/ 1963 China on the Eve of Communist Takeover A. Doak Barnett Frederick A. Praeger 198–199 https://archive.org/details/chinaoneveofcomm0000unse_y8m5/page/198/mode/ A second important minority in Suiyuan Province is the Muslim group. Varying estimates are made of its numerical strength, but it appears that there are now probably about 20,000 Muslims in the province, concentrated mainly in the cities of Paotow and Kweisui. They are intermingled with the Han Chinese majority, however, and even Chinese newcomers to the province often have difficulty identifying Suiyuan Muslims unless they are wearing distinctive skull caps. en 2020 Shiyuan Hao China's Solution to Its Ethno-national Issues https://books.google.com/books?id=Qcm1DwAAQBAJ 978-981-32-9518-6 2363-7579 1226339907 xv https://www.google.com/books/edition/China_s_Solution_to_Its_Ethno_national_I/Qcm1DwAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PR15 In October 1937, Demchudongrub, a Mongolian prince descended from the Borjigin imperial clan, proclaimed the independence of Inner Mongolia and founded the "Mongol United Autonomous Government," with Kweisui (today's Hohhot) as the capital. en References Further reading pn 1