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Citations:Huang-an

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English citations of Huang-an

  • [1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China[1], London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14:
    Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.]
  • [1931 April 20, “CHINA BANDITS PAID TO RELEASE U.S. CHURCH MAN”, in Victoria Daily Times[2], volume 78, number 93, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
    Rev. K. N. Tvedt of St. Paul, United States Lutheran United missionary, held captive by Chinese Communists near Hwangan, northern Hupeh, since last October 17, was released yesterday on payment of ransom by the mission.
    The Lutheran mission's home here was advised Mr. Tvedt had arrived at Sungfow, south of Hwangan, en route to Hankow.
    ]
  • 1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China[3], Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 553:
    Born in 1886 in Huang-an county, Hupeh, in a large gentry family headed by scholars and teachers, Tung received a classical education and passed the imperial official (Confucian) examinations at the age of sixteen.
  • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Catastrophic Deterrents”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250:
    Huang-an county in Hupei, with a pre-1934 population of some 160,000, had but 66,000 in 1953. For six years after the Communist retreat the eighty-li stretch between Hsin-hsien and Lo-t'ien in Hupei remained entirely leveled by the Nationalists and turned into a no-man's-land.
  • 1970, Martin Ebon, “Boy from Hupeh (1907-1930)”, in Lin Piao: The Life and Writings of China's New Ruler[4], New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
    Lin was born in 1907, probably in the village of Liu-chia-wan, Huang-an county, Hupeh Province. Lin’s native village is about fifty miles downstream from the Yangtse River spot where Mao Tse-tung, in the summer of 1966, undertook the historic swim that dramatized his vigorous return to the Chinese political scene.
  • 1978, Yang, quotee, “The Death of Lin Piao”, in The Chinese Assassin[5], New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
    I was born in Huang-an County in Hupeh Province in 1934 although I was brought up in Szechuan.
  • 1992, “LI HSIEN-NIEN”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976[6], Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 206:
    Li Hsien-nien is a native of Huang-an County (now known as Hung-an) in eastern Hupeh Province. [] When the split between the Communists and the Nationalists took place in 1927, Li returned to Huang-an County as an operative in the Communist Young Pioneers. [] In 1930, he became an instructor in the Red Guard, and in the following year, he was elected chairman of the small Soviet government of Huang-an County.