Kaying

English

Etymology

From Chinese 嘉應 / 嘉应, likely via Cantonese.

Proper noun

Kaying

  1. A former prefecture of Guangdong, China; now Meizhou.
    • 1940, John Joseph Considine, When the Sorghum Was High: A Narrative Biography of Father A. Donovan of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, A Maryknoll Missioner Slain by Bandits in Manchukuo‎[1], Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, page 181:
      Four of the Maryknoll territories are in South China, the Vicariates of Kongmoon, Wuchow and Kaying and the Prefecture of Kweilin.
    • 1978 November 29, “Rev. John F. Donovan, A Maryknoll Vicar, 71”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 February 2018, Section B, page 12‎[3]:
      He had been vicar‐general from 1956 to 1966. He was previously a missionary in Kaying in southern China, receiving the assignment in 1938.
    • 1990, Albert J. Nevins, American Martyrs: From 1542‎[4], Our Sunday Visitor, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 139–141:
      In 1925, the Paris society offered Maryknoll another territory in the northeast corner of Kwangtung Province, inhabited by Hakka-speaking people. Father Ford was put in charge, picking Kaying, the Hakka cultural center, as his own main base, and set about developing the area.
    • 1994, Nicole Constable, “The Construction of Hakka Identity”, in Christian Souls and Chinese Spirits: A Hakka Community in Hong Kong‎[5], Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:
      Interestingly, Nakagawa cites a Chinese translation of Campbell that was published in 1951 by the Perak Public Association of the Hakkas and also in 1923 in Kaying, translated by a Hakka of Meixian district.
    • [2004 November, Cindy Yik-yi Chu, “Difficult Years, 1937–1951”, in The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese‎[6], Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
      She sadly bade farewell to the Sisters, who were returning to Jiaying (or Meixian), Guangdong Province, from Hong Kong. With foreseeable dangers ahead of them, the Sisters prepared for the worst in China.]
    • 2016, Landon J. DePasquale, “Ford, Francis Xavier”, in George Thomas Kurian, Mark A. Lamport, editors, Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States‎[7], volume 2, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 904, column 1:
      After his ordination, he was sent as a Missionary to Guangdong, China. He was appointed the first bishop of Kaying on June 18, 1935. While he was the bishop of Kaying, he built a seminary for the education of native-born Chinese priests.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kaying.

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