Gutian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: go͞oʹtyěnʹ
Forms: form: Gǔtián
form: Gu-Tian
form: Gu-tian
form: Gu Tian
form: Ku-t'ien
form: Kutien
form: Ku-tien
form: Ku-Tien
form: Ku-T'ien
form: Ku Tien
form: Ku T'ien
form: Kŭ-chèng
form: Ku-cheng
form: Ku-Cheng
form: Ku Cheng
form: Kucheng
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 古田 (Gǔtián).
Senses: examples: text: At Shuikou, on the border between Minqing and Gutian, on the mainstream of the Min Jiang, Fujian Province will build the largest hydroelectric power station in the East China region.
ref: 1983 August 30 [1983 June 29], “Conditions Said Ripe to Begin Construction of Shuikou Hydropower Project”, in China Report, Economic Affairs, number 377, →OCLC, page 25:
text: Red ferment is one in which red mould grows on polished round rice, and is a specialty of the area round Gutian and Pingnan in Fujian province.
ref: 2010, Zhengping (李争平) Li, translated by 译谷 [Shanghai Ego], 中国酒: 英文 [Chinese Wine: Universe in a Bottle], Beijing: China Intercontinental Press (五洲传播出版社), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:
english: Chinese Wine: Universe in a Bottle
translation: Chinese Wine: Universe in a Bottle
text: [Bian Baoquan] denounces Wang Yuchang, district magistrate of Gutian, Fujian, for incompetency, cowardice and avarice, and possessing a decidedly bad reputation amongst his colleagues. On account of his memorialist has already deposed the said magistrate from his post at Gutian, but he thinks that this man deserves further punishment for failing at the beginning to report a rioting of the "Vegetarians" in his district, preferring to buy peace by asking certain persons to promise concessions to the demands of the secret society men in order to keep them quiet.
ref: 2018 [1895 December 14], Lane J. Harris, The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 264:
synonyms: Kucheng
glosses: A county of Ningde, Fujian, China.
examples: text: Survivors of the peasant movement recall seeing Mao Zedong at Gutian, a day’s walk from the village, during the Gutian Conference in December 1929.
ref: 1983, Victor Nee, “Post-Mao Changes in a South China Production Brigade”, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, editor, China from Mao to Deng: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Development, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63, column 2:
text: A place about thirteen miles west of Longyan called Gutian produced an unusual person. […] All visitors to western Fujian Province knew that an earth emperor was living in Gutian, and all were curious to meet him and to admire his style. Quite unexpectedly I had an opportunity to go to Gutian: Wugou and Shanshan, tired of life in Shanghai, came to visit me in the ancient farming village of Longyan, and I took time out to roam with them through all the scenic places close by.
ref: 2001, Xie Bingying, “A Traveling Life”, in Lily Chia Brissman, Barry Brissman, transl., A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 244–245:
text: At Gutian, Mao made much of introducing a resolution to abolish the practice. This move was tremendously popular with the soldiers. But a few months later, when the Gutian resolutions were circulated, this item was not among them.
ref: 2005, Jung Chang, Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 73:
glosses: A town in Shanghang, Longyan, Fujian, China.