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Jiexiu
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Jièxiū
English
Jiexiu City
Alternative forms
en Chieh-hsiu Chiehhsiu Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of en cmn 介休 Jie's Rest Jièxiū. Supposedly named by Ji Chong'er, the Wen Duke of Jin, in his remorse for having killed his loyal subject Jie Zhitui and Jie's mother with an intentional forest fire in the region.
Pronunciation
jyĕ′shyō′Kiehsiu or Chieh-hsiu 943 1
en Jie xiu
Proper noun
en county-level city prefecture-level city/Jinzhong central p/Shanxi c/China.
en 1975 Fred W. Drake A Scholar-Official from Shansi China Charts the World: Hsu Chi-yü and His Geography of 1848 https://archive.org/details/chinachartsworld0000drak/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-11643-7 75-17882 1087434178 10–11 https://archive.org/details/chinachartsworld0000drak/page/11/ He spent the rest of his life teaching at Chin-yang (T’ai-yuan), K’uo-hsien, and Chieh-hsiu in Shansi, using these years to master his favorite work, the Book of Changes (Chou i).After his death at Chieh-hsiu in 1827 Chi-yü, his only son, collected Jun-ti’s miscellaneous essays from his students, which he published posthumously around 1831 in seventeen chüan under the title Tun-ken-chai i-shu (Remaining writings from the Tun-ken Study). on
en 1987 Wolfgang Bartke Hou Wailu (zh :zh:侯外庐 侯外庐) Who's Who in the People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinpeoples02edbart/ 2nd K. G. Saur 3-598-10610-6 470257263 2473633M 149 https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinpeoples02edbart/page/149/ Hou was born in 1896 in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, into a landlord family.
en November 17, 2017 Christopher Bodeen Human rights repression in China seen worsening under Xi https://web.archive.org/web/20230308133656/https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kdU8xp9BApgJ:https://apnews.com/article/1dadb9a9bd7f4767bd5c0c0031d96641 08 March 2023 w:AP News Gao’s freedom was short-lived, however. Less than three weeks later, the police tracked him to the city of Jiexiu in Shanxi province and searched house-to-house until they found him, Li Fawang, a supporter who helped him escape, told The Associated Press. Gao’s whereabouts are now unknown.
Translations
county-level city
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 介休
Mandarin: cmn 介休 Jièxiū
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
Jiexiu, Chieh-hsiu
en 1998 Jiexiu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1448 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1448/ 1