Huangchuan
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 潢川 (Huángchuān).
Proper noun
[edit]Huangchuan
- A county of Xinyang, Henan, China.
- 1932 March 15 [1932 February 27], “Honan People in Dire Distress”, in North-China Herald[1], volume CLXXXII, number 3371, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 401, column 2:
- On February 23, General Chang Fang, Pacification Commissioner, for the special district of South Honan proceeded to Huangchuan to direct his troops in the suppression of the bandits.
- 1968, O. Edmund Clubb, “The Chinese Soviets”, in Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932[2], Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:
- Rev. Bly, of the United Lutheran Mission at Huangchuan, Honan, states that probably all of the important leaders in the Honan-Anhui-Hupeh Soviet organization are graduates of universities and colleges, at least one being a returned student from France; some of these were associated with the Hankow Government in 1926-7, and had to flee for their lives at the time of the turn-over.
- 1997, Harriet Evans, Women and Sexuality in China: Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949[3], Continuum, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 227:
- A survey of Huangchuan County, Henan Province, revealed that, in the period 1979-86, 39.6% of all marriages were through the matchmaker, 37.6% through third-party introductions, 6.9% through relatives’ introductions, and only 15.8% through direct acquaintance, ‘the model of modern marital behaviour’ (1994, 174-5).
- 2013 January 4, Ernest Kao, “Teachers flog four-year-old at Xinyang kindergarten”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 January 2013, Opinion[5]:
- A principal from a Huangchuan county primary school in Xinyang, China’s southeastern Henan province, was sacked last week after two teachers from its nursery section took turns flogging a four-year-old boy.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huangchuan.