Kochiu

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 箇舊／个旧 (Gèjiù).

Proper noun

Kochiu

1. Dated form of Gejiu.
   • 1911, Edwin J. Dingle, Across China on Foot: Life in the Interior and the Reform Movement‎^[1], New York: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 428:

     Tin comes from Kochiu, about twenty miles from the French port of Mengtsz, and about 5,000 tons are exported annually.

   • 1940, Nicol Smith, Burma Road‎^[2], Garden City, NY: Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, pages 136–137:

     The village clings to the side of the hill and looks down over the broad valley of Meng-tsz. The view in all directions is superb, and the village is filthy. It deals principally with the two dirtiest commodities known to man—pigs and coal. The tin from the mines of Kochiu, both of which are on a spur railroad which branches off from the main line at a village called Pi-che-tchai.[...]The tin from the mines of Kochiu also passes through it, but only at intervals, whereas the pigs and the coal are its everyday affair.

   • 1958, Edgar Snow, Journey to the Beginning‎^[3], New York: Random House, →OCLC, page 53:

     One of the most criminal uses of them was in the primitive tin mines at Kochiu, a semi-government enterprise. Once there, the boys often developed rickets, scabies and beri-beri. The shafts and tunnels in the mines were very small, hardly big enough for a boy to crawl in and out on his hands and knees, with the ore basket strapped to his back. As a result many became permanently deformed and were cast aside.