keshan

name

1. A county of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China.

   “In many other places cadres from credit cooperatives also help communes and brigades develop diversified undertakings in order to make the collective economy grow and increase commune members' income. For example, the saving deposits of commune members in Koshan County, Heilungkiang Province, grow every month and quarter.”

   “This same process occurred in villages founded in central and northern Manchuria. The fragmentation of a large estate can be observed in the case of the Chang household, which owned 1,080 hectares in K’o-shan county of Heilungkiang province in north Manchuria prior to 1911. By 1934 the Chang household owned none of this land. The estate had been sold off so that portions of it were claimed by 54 households, which ranged in size from 130 hectares to .13 hectares.”

   “Keshan disease is a degenerative disease, particularly affecting the heart, that is prevented by supplementation of the diet with a selenium salt. The name comes from an episode in 1935 in which 57 out of 286 inhabitants of a village in Keshan County of Heilongjiang Province died of the disease.”