Xihua
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English
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西華／西华.
Proper noun
Xihua
- A county of Zhoukou, Henan, China.
- , London, →OCLC, page 9:
- The Honan authorities do not appear to have been successful in maintaining order and suppressing brigandage. Amongst the innumerable acts of lawlessness reported, one of the most daring occurred in the early part of December when a band of 500 mounted robbers attacked the district city of Hsi-hua Hsien, and after looting the town departed unmolested, taking with them some of the leading inhabitants for whose release they demanded a ransom.]
- , Kowloon, Hong Kong: Union Research Institute, →OCLC, page 223, column 1:
- Led contingent of New 4th Army, operating with Eastern Honan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla 3rd Detachment, Aug. 1938; Hsiao’s contingent, 3rd Detachment, and a section of 4th Division, New 4th Army, led by P’eng Hsüeh-feng joined forces in Hsihua (西華) county and re-grouped to be a guerrilla detachment of New 4th Army, Sept. 1938; detachment became known as 6th Detachment, Noy. 1939; […]]
- 1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
- While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).
- 2000 September 5, John Pomfret, “China Expands Crackdown on Religions Not Recognized by State”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 August 2017:
- The latest Christian "house church" crackdown is occurring in Xihua county, in Henan. There, a powerful Christian movement has been sweeping across parts of the province, fueled by the collapse of faith in communism and economic woes that turn many people's attention toward spiritual issues.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Xihua”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3502, column 2
- Xihua, Hsi-hua, Hsihua at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.