Meaning of Keshan | Babel Free

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A county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.

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“This same process⟳ occurred in villages founded in central and northern Manchuria. The fragmentation of a large estate can be observed in the case of the Chang household, which owned 1,080 hectares in K’o-shan county of Heilungkiang province in north Manchuria prior to 1911. By 1934 the Chang household owned none of this land⟳. The estate had been sold off so that portions of it were claimed by 54 households, which ranged in size from 130 hectares to .13 hectares.”

“Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name⟳ comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease.”

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