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Ko-chiu
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Kochiu
English
Etymology
From en cmn 箇舊, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Ko⁴-chiu⁴.
Proper noun
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en Gejiu.
en 1973 Roger V. Des Forges Leading Society Hsi-liang and the Chinese National Revolution https://archive.org/details/hsiliangchinesen0000desf/ w:Yale University Press 0-300-01644-1 73-77147 905633651 104–105 https://archive.org/details/hsiliangchinesen0000roge/page/105/ He released Min Li-sung when he publicly “admitted his errors,” but he continued to hold the son, who refused to repent.¹¹ He thus warned landowners in the Ko-chiu area not to deal with the French.
en 1973 Chiao-min Hsieh ATLAS OF CHINA https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/ McGraw-Hill, Inc. 0-07-030628-1 72-8717 1204247698 9249878M 97 https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/page/97/ The Ko-chiu area in Yunnan is still the backbone of the Chinese tin industry, as it supplies about two-thirds of China's total output.
en 1980 Donald S. Sutton Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 Michigan Studies on China https://archive.org/details/provincialmilita0000sutt/ Ann Arbor w:University of Michigan Press 0-472-08813-0 80-13545 6196252 56–57 https://archive.org/details/provincialmilita0000sutt/page/57/ According to French Consul François, the governor-general and other leading officials personally attended the drill practices close to Yunnanfu. Five prefectures succeeded in organizing t’uan-lien, which paraded and drilled before dawn and before dusk in the villages.¹⁸ In the winter of 1903-4 an occasion arose to test the experiment. A revolt, antiforeign and antiofficial in inspiration, started among the perennially restive young tin miners in the Ko-chiu mining region.
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