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English
Etymology
From Mandarin 湖北 (Húběi) Wade–Giles romanization: Hu²-pei³.[1][2]
Proper noun
Hu-pei
- Alternative form of Hubei
1913, Berthold Laufer, Notes on Turquois in the East, Chicago, →OCLC, page 65:From one of the turquois dealers in Si-ngan fu the information was given me that the turquoises traded there come from the prefecture of Yün-yang in Hu-pei Province, while another more especially point to the district of Chu-shan, situated in the same prefecture, as the place of production. The Imperial Geography (Ta Ts'ing i t'ung chi, Ch. 272),³ in the chapter dealing with Yün-yang fu, contains no allusion to this fact, and mentions in an enumeration of the mountains of the Chu-shan district only one producing stones, the Fan shi shan, deriving its name from the fan shi or alum formerly produced there.
1954, Herold J. Wiens, “The history of South Chinese tribal movements and migrations”, in Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 88:General Fu Yu-te commanded an army of 100,000 which assembled in Hu-kuang Province (Hu-pei and Hu-nan area). Aside from a part of his army which he dispatched post-haste to Wu-san (present-day Wei-ning in western Kuei-chou)(See Photos 7 and 8), he personally led the main body. He entered Kuei-chou from Hu-nan along the Yuan River route.
1988 December, Wen-kai (龔文凱) Kung, “The Official Biography of Tu Mu (803-852) in the Old T'ang History”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review, volume XXIX, number 4, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95:Tu Ts'ao was appointed Prefect of Ch'i-chou 蘄州 (present-day Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春 in Hu-pei Province), and Tu Mu and Yi accompanied Ts'ao to Ch'i-chou, and then Tu Mu returned to the capital.
2000, Sheau-yueh J. (趙賀筱岳) Chao, “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames], number 50, Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:According to Hsing yüan 姓苑, the surname Ch'i 蘄 derived from the place name Ch'i-ch'un 蘄春, located in the present Ch'i-chun hsien 蘄春縣, Hu-pei 湖北 province.
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References
- ^ Hubei, Wade-Giles romanization Hu-pei, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 479: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Hu-pei (Hubei) 湖北”