Ko-chiu

See also: Kochiu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 箇舊／个旧 (Gèjiù), Wade–Giles romanization: Ko⁴-chiu⁴.

Proper noun

Ko-chiu

1. Alternative form of Gejiu
   • 1973, Roger V. Des Forges, “Leading Society”, in Hsi-liang and the Chinese National Revolution‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 104–105:

     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.

   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA‎^[2], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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.

   • 1980, Donald S. Sutton, Provincial Militarism and the Chinese Republic: The Yunnan Army, 1905–25 (Michigan Studies on China)‎^[3], Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 56–57:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ko-chiu.