Meaning of Queshan | Babel Free

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A county of Zhumadian, Henan, China.

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“Friends told of how at one stage, when the place was literally filled to the last corner, a group had arrived marching from Chuehshan, a hill county in Honan. It had taken them a month to come.”

Travels in China, 1966-71

“Their retreat to Ying-shang was part of a new plan to turn westward into Honan province along the route taken in February by Ch’en Te-ts’ai, who had tried to capture Hsin-ts’ai with the help of a local Nien force and afterward gone farther west past Ch’üeh-shan to lay siege to Nan-yang beginning March 10th.”

“The territorial base that each network controlled corresponded neatly with a subcounty administrative unit. In Queshan county, for instance, the Red Spears were divided into the Red, Yellow, Green, White, and Black Spears. The Red Spears, the dominant group in the southeast, had 100,000 men and 200 guns, while the Yellow Spears, who occupied the northern part of the county, numbered 40,000 with 100 guns. A mixture of various sectarians coexisted in the west of the county.”

“Li Jinsheng wanted to study law. But because he is blind, virtually the only profession he could train for in China was massage. So he did that and set up a massage business in Queshan County, Henan Province.[…] Reached by telephone, officials in Queshan County’s education department declined to comment.”

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