Hai'an

alternative Haian · alternative Hai-an

1. A county-level city of Nantong, Jiangsu, China.

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   Fei therefore proposes refining this correlation of economic development and geographic identity. "If the matter is given more thought," he remarks, "it can be seen that the northern part of the Nantong Municipality that includes Hai’an and Rudong counties is not very much influenced economically by Shanghai."

   1992, Emily Honig, “In Search of Subei”, in Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33

   The couple didn’t have money for even the simplest of weddings, so they told their parents that they had the ceremony in Nanjing and told their Nanda classmates that they had married back in Hai’an. After a month at home in Hai’an, the couple returned to Nanjing, spent a day packing up their worldly possessions—ten boxes of books, two wooden trunks, and an envelope containing one hundred yuan (sixteen dollars) in borrowed money—and boarded the train to Hefei, the capital of Anhui.

   2006, John Pomfret, “Yin Finds Yang”, in Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China, New York: Henry Holt and Company, published 2007, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 124

2. A town in Xuwen, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China.
3. A residential community in Chenjiagang, Xiangshui, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China.