Kuei-p'ing

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 桂平 (Guìpíng) Wade–Giles romanization: Kuei⁴-pʻing².

Proper noun

Kuei-p'ing

1. Alternative form of Guiping
   • 1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China‎^[2], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 174:

     Hung Hsiu-ch’üan and Feng Yun-shan, founders and propagators of the new pseudo-Christianity, converted dozens of communities during their missionary work in the years 1844-1850. These communities lay in a number of districts but principally in Kuei-hsien and Kuei-p’ing in southern Kwangsi.

   • 1971, Franz Michael, “Hung Hsiu-ch'üan and the Taiping Uprising”, in Chün-tu Hsüeh, editor, Revolutionary Leaders of Modern China‎^[3], Oxford University Press, published 1973, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26:

     When Hung and Feng returned to the area of Kuei-p’ing in the summer of 1849, they had to take note of this new type of leadership based on trances.

   • 1988, Charles E. Ronan, Bonnie B. C. Oh, editors, East Meets West: the Jesuits in China, 1582-1773‎^[4], Chicago: Loyola University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 178:

     He obtained the chin-shih degree in 1595 and, after a number of official appointments, became the intendant of the Kuei-p’ing circuit in Kuangsi in 1624.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kuei-p'ing.

Translations

Guiping — see Guiping