Kaihsienkung

From Mandarin 開弦弓／开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-hsien²-kung¹.

Kaihsienkung

1. Alternative form of Kaixiangong
   • 1939, Fei, Hsiao-tung (費孝通), Peasant Life in China (江村經濟)‎, London: George Routledge and Sons, OCLC 823027574, OL 20963296M, pages 9-10:

     The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.

   • 1958, Service, Elman R., Profiles in Ethnology‎, Harper & Row, published 1963, LCCN 63-9050, OCLC 917241893, OL 20944960M, page 451:

     At the time of Fei’s study, Kaihsienkung had two headmen. The elder of the two did not deal with the higher government, having allowed a younger man to fill the official post.

   • 1966, Maurice Freedman, “Relations Between Lineages”, in Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung‎, Athlone Press, LCCN 66-11164, OCLC 728707843, page 98:

     Geddes goes over what Fei said on cross-cousin marriage in the village, amplifying the analysis at one point, but not treating the matter more generally. The implication appears to be that cross-cousin marriage no longer takes place in Kaihsienkung.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaihsienkung.