Hong'an
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See also: hongan
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅安 / 红安 (Hóng'ān).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ho͝ongʹänʹ
Proper noun
Hong'an
- A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
- 1997, Xiaobo Lü, Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective, 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.”
- , Oxford University Press, sourced from Li Rui, Dayuejin Qinliji (A record of my personal experience of the GLF) (Shanghai: Shanghai yuandong chubanshe, 1996), 317 ff., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:
- Delegates to the Congress, particularly local officials, vied with one another about how to implement duohao kuaisheng and the general line, and how to promote the GLF. Zealots from Central and South China, in particular, were the most extravagant. Hubei’s Wang Renzhong dwelt on the experimental plots which originated in Hongan County and how they had changed social attitudes.]
- 2002, Elizabeth J. Perry, Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China, 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).
- , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 February 2020, Society:
- 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.]
Synonyms
Translations
county in central China
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hong'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 3