"Jiexiu" meaning in English

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          "ref": "[1962, Chalmers A. Johnson, “Peasant Nationalism in China”, in Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945, Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4",
          "text": "As one example of the wartime orientation of this propaganda, here is part of a leaflet prepared by the CCP-dominated Shansi Sacrifice League and captured by the Japanese Army in Chiehhsiu hsien, Shansi, in September 1938.]",
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          "text": "He spent the rest of his life teaching at Chin-yang (T’ai-yuan), K’uo-hsien, and Chieh-hsiu in Shansi, using these years to master his favorite work, the Book of Changes (Chou i).[…]\nAfter his death at Chieh-hsiu in 1827 Chi-yü, his only son, collected Jun-ti’s miscellaneous essays from his students, which he published posthumously around 1831 in seventeen chüan under the title Tun-ken-chai i-shu (Remaining writings from the Tun-ken Study).]",
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          "text": "Hou was born in 1896 in Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province, into a landlord family.",
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          "ref": "2017 November 17, Christopher Bodeen, “Human rights repression in China seen worsening under Xi”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-03-08",
          "text": "Gao’s freedom was short-lived, however. Less than three weeks later, the police tracked him to the city of Jiexiu in Shanxi province and searched house-to-house until they found him, Li Fawang, a supporter who helped him escape, told The Associated Press. Gao’s whereabouts are now unknown.",
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