Hungan

See also: Hung-an

English

Etymology

1950s, from Mandarin 紅安 / 红安 (Hóng'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-an¹.

Proper noun

Hungan

Alternative form of Hong'an.
- 1958 April 1, Tao Li-wen, “Experimental Farm Plots — A Way to Improve Leadership”, in Peking Review [北京周報], volume I, number 5, →OCLC, page 13, column 1:
  In this connection, the name of Hungan, a small county in Hupeh Province, has become almost a household word. […]
  FARM yields in Hungan County shot up spectacularly in 1957. Its average grain yield per mou rose to 834 catties— 116 per cent over its 1952 average and 18 per cent more than in 1956. […]
  In 1956, Hungan's first year of co-operative farming, 90 per cent of its 732 co-ops increased their yields.
- 1975 August 4 [1975 August 3], Li Hsien-nien, quotee, “Cheng Wei-san Dies in Peking on 27 Jul”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 150, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 2:
  Comrade Li Hsien-nien said: Comrade Cheng Wei-san, born in Hungan County, Hupeh Province, dedicated himself to the Chinese people's great cause of revolution since his early days.
- 1984 April 27 [1984 April 2], Hu Guohua, Tang Hua, “Performing Duties in a New Way -- Eyewitness Report on Investigation and Study Conducted by Members of the Central Advisory Commission”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 083, sourced from Beijing LIAOWANG, No 14, 02 April 1984 pp 9-11, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, China: PRC National Affairs, page K 7:
  He discovered that there was no direct postal and telegraphic communication between Hungan County of Hubei Province and the neighboring Xin County of Henan Province, that letters mailed from Hungan County to Xin County had to take a detour by way of Wuhan and then via Xiangcheng to reach Xin County, and that this was also true for the dispatch of telegrams.