"Kaihsienkung" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 開弦弓／开弦弓 (Kāixiángōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Kʻai¹-hsien²-kung¹.",
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          "ref": "1939, Hsiao-tung (費孝通) Fei, 江村經濟 [Peasant Life in China], London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10",
          "text": "The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.",
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          "ref": "1958, Elman R. Service, Profiles in Ethnology, Harper & Row, published 1963, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 451",
          "text": "At the time of Fei’s study, Kaihsienkung had two headmen. The elder of the two did not deal with the higher government, having allowed a younger man to fill the official post.",
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          "ref": "1966, Maurice Freedman, “Relations Between Lineages”, in Chinese Lineage and Society: Fukien and Kwangtung, Athlone Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 98",
          "text": "Geddes goes over what Fei said on cross-cousin marriage in the village, amplifying the analysis at one point, but not treating the matter more generally. The implication appears to be that cross-cousin marriage no longer takes place in Kaihsienkung.",
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          "ref": "1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, “Introduction”, in Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945, Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 8",
          "text": "Since it is unlikely that these families averaged more than one unmarried son old enough to be matched with a t’ung-yang-hsi, these figures suggest that minor marriages accounted for approximately 20 percent of all first marriages. This was in 1931. Five years later the distinguished anthropologist Fei Hsiao-tung found approximately the same incidence of minor marriage in Kaihsienkung, a village on the shore of Lake T’ai in southern Kiangsu.",
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          "text": "Geddes goes over what Fei said on cross-cousin marriage in the village, amplifying the analysis at one point, but not treating the matter more generally. The implication appears to be that cross-cousin marriage no longer takes place in Kaihsienkung.",
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