Queshan

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 確山 / 确山.

Proper noun

Queshan

1. A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.
   • [1973, Rewi Alley, “Some Hunan Journeys”, in 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71]‎^[1], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 17:

     Friends told of how at one stage, when the place was literally filled to the last corner, a group had arrived marching from Chuehshan, a hill county in Honan. It had taken them a month to come.]

   • [1973, Yu-wen Jen, “The Drive through Chekiang toward Shanghai (1861-1862)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement‎^[2], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 464–465:

     Their retreat to Ying-shang was part of a new plan to turn westward into Honan province along the route taken in February by Ch’en Te-ts’ai, who had tried to capture Hsin-ts’ai with the help of a local Nien force and afterward gone farther west past Ch’üeh-shan to lay siege to Nan-yang beginning March 10th.]

   • 1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan‎^[3], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 67:

     The territorial base that each network controlled corresponded neatly with a subcounty administrative unit. In Queshan county, for instance, the Red Spears were divided into the Red, Yellow, Green, White, and Black Spears. The Red Spears, the dominant group in the southeast, had 100,000 men and 200 guns, while the Yellow Spears, who occupied the northern part of the county, numbered 40,000 with 100 guns. A mixture of various sectarians coexisted in the west of the county.

   • 2013 December 18, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Barred From College Entrance Exams, in a Blow for China’s Blind”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 August 2023, Sinosphere‎^[5]:

     Li Jinsheng wanted to study law. But because he is blind, virtually the only profession he could train for in China was massage. So he did that and set up a massage business in Queshan County, Henan Province. […]
     Reached by telephone, officials in Queshan County’s education department declined to comment.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 確山 / 确山 (zh) (Quèshān)

• Japanese: 確山 (かくさん, Kakusan)
• Manchu: ᠴᡳᠣᠸᡝᡳ
  ᡧᠠᠨ (ciowei šan)

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kioshan or Ch’iao-shan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 952, column 1: “Also written Chüehshan.”
• Queshan, Chuehshan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Queshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2553, column 3