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Etymology
From Mandarin 湖北 (Húběi) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-pei³.
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Hupei
- Alternative spelling of Hubei
1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, page 413:The late Shang and early Western Chou civilization appear to have had some contact with the Szechwan Neolithic, as indicated by the remains of li tripods of gray and cord-marked ware, and sherds of tou of the Bronze Age style found in the Yangtze Valley in the extreme eastern end of Szechwan Province, where it adjoins Hupei.
1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 169:Tseng, with neither experience nor a following in Hupei, was of course more dependent on Peking than were those who had run the province since 1958.
1976 March 14, “Monk's body still intact six years after death”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 10, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:The Rev. Ching Yen, a native of Hupei, was called Huang Hsing-hua before he became a novice in 1935.
1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 7 October 2023, page 51:Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).
1992, Edwin Pak-wah Leung, WEN I-TO (Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976), Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 461:Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school.
2005, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Sheryl Martin, “Introduction to Taoism”, in The Tao of Dreaming, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:According to the biographer Ssuma Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.), Lao Tzu came from the southern state of Ch’u, which is now the provinces of Hunan and Hupei.
n.d., “Other Names for Shadow Puppet Theater”, in Kaohsiung Museum of History, archived from the original on 07 October 2023:Different places have different names for shadow puppet theater. […]
in Hupei it is known by the name "Leather shadow theater."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hupei.
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