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Hong'an

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅安 / 红安 (Hóng'ān).

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Hong'an

  1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
    • 1997, Xiaobo Lü, Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective[1], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 199:
      At the city’s No. 2 Mill, on the other hand, the management signed a collective contract with the neighboring Hong’an county government, thus utilizing bureaucratic channels, in the belief that a group from one home place would be “easier to control.”
    • 2002, Elizabeth J. Perry, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China[2], published 2015, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 295:
      [...]villages in Hong'an County, Hubei had expended nearly 200,000 yuan in 1983 for making "clan dragon-lanterns" (xingshi longdeng).
    • [2020 February 6, Laurie Chen, “Communist officials fired after disabled Chinese boy died when relatives were put in coronavirus quarantine”, in South China Morning Post[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 February 2020, Society‎[4]:
      Yan Cheng had cerebral palsy and died on January 29 while in the care of officials in Huajiahe township, Hongan county, more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak.]

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