K'un-shan
See also: Kunshan
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 崑山/昆山 (Kūnshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻun¹-shan¹.
Proper noun
K'un-shan
- Alternative form of Kunshan
- 1927, John C. Ferguson, Chinese Painting, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 148:
- He was a native of Hua-t’ing, Kiangsu Province, and was director of education at K’un-shan, but retired on account of his dislike of public life.
- 1957, Kalivodová, translated by Iris Urwin, Chinese Theatre, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 29:
- Wei Liang-fu lived in K’un-shan near Shanghai, and for ten years studied the old operas and their music.
- 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130:
- Then, in 1936, the Firemen's Association of K’un-shan sponsored a benefit concert. This was a big deal because K’un-shan was the place where k’un-ch’ü originated six hundred years ago.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:K'un-shan.
Translations
Kunshan — see Kunshan
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