Kityangとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Kityang

1. Synonym of Jieyang: the Cantonese-derived name.
   • 1907, Jacob Speicher, “China and the Problems of the Far East”, in The Conquest of the Cross in China‎, London, Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 54:

     The coolie class from Kityang and Swatow Districts emigrated in large numbers to the French possessions of Anam and Cochin-China, a fact which gave the French colonial officials the opportunity of exercising a great influence in the Swatow District. Sometimes these emigrants would return to their native country as French subjects or converts of the Roman Catholic Church and would be a source of annoyance to the government, which, of course, could exercise no authority over them.

   • 1946, Ada P. Stearns, The Magnolia Tree is Blooming: Missionary Service during the War Years 1937-1945‎, New York: Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, page 6:

     Dr. Clara C. Leach felt rewarded for her determination to reach the field. In 1941 just as war was declared, she arrived at the port city of Swatow, forty miles from Kityang.