Chikan

See also: chikan and chīkàn

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin[1] 赤坎 (Chìkǎn).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: chûʹkänʹ[1]

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Chikan

  1. A town in Kaiping, Jiangmen, Guangdong, China.
    • 2017 August 28, He Huifeng, “Families who’ve lived in old Chinese town for generations being kicked out to make way for tourists”, in South China Morning Post‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017, China‎[3]:
      Close to 4,000 households are being forced out of a centuries-old town on the western edge of the Pearl River Delta by their local government, which has teamed up with an investment firm to turn it into a tourist attraction.
      It’s not what the residents of Chikan’s old town expected when the nearby Kaiping diaolous – fortified, multi-storey dwellings – were put on the World Heritage List by Unesco in 2007.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chikhom”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 393, column 2

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