Kushih

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 固始 (Gùshǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Ku⁴-shih³.

Proper noun

Kushih

1. Alternative form of Gushi
   • 1934, “Evangelistic Work—Mission Districts”, in White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934‎^[1], →OCLC, page 90:

     Kushih Hsien is one of the populous districts of Southeast Honan. It borders on Anhwei province and extends over two hundred li, (70 miles) south to the Hupeh border. […] At present the district of Kushih has eight organized congregations and two preaching places.

   • 1963, Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[2], numbers 2889-2909, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     (2) Huaipin hsien is restored; its present administrative area is the administrative area of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Hsi hsien and the two administrative areas of Ch'issu and Changchuang ch'u of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Kushih hsien.

   • 1980, Rewi Alley, Struggle Around the Central Plains: A Story of Honan Province‎^[3], →OCLC, page 31:

     I was interested to hear, when irrigation was being discussed, that the Meishan reservoir I visited in 1959 on the Anhwei side of Tapieh Mountains is now irrigating 400,000 mu of land in Kushih county in the Hsinyang prefecture, which has itself built 200 dams in the last few years.

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

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kushih”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 994, column 3