K'ai-p'ing

From Mandarin 開平／开平 (Kāipíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-pʻing².

K'ai-p'ing

1. Alternative form of Kaiping
   • 1964 [1948], Hsien Chin Hu, The Common Descent Group in China and Its Functions‎, Johnson Reprint Corporation, →OCLC, page 67:

     When in the summer of 1944 the Japanese advanced to take the districts of T'ai-shan and San-shui, the county of K'ai-p'ing was menaced. The Chinese army had retreated, but the two tsu of Szu-t'u and Kuan organized themselves to fight for their homes.

   • 1978, William L. Parish, Village and Family in Contemporary China‎, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 26:

     In addition to the language difference between the two major ethnic groups, there are differences among the Cantonese themselves. For example, people in four counties to the southwest of Canton—in T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, and En-p'ing counties—speak a version of Cantonese which is almost unintelligible to residents of Canton.

   • 1984, Yuen-fong Woon, Social Organization in South China, 1911-1949: The Case of the Kuan Lneage of Kʻai-pʻing County‎, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:

     The seat of K'ai-p'ing County is 104 miles southwest of Canton. It is one of the four adjacent hsien lying to the west of the Pearl River delta, a region that has sent thousands of its residents to North America.