Handan

alternative Han-tan

1. A prefecture-level city of Hebei, China.

   At age 20, Tian enlisted in the army, and nine years later she joined the police force of Handan, a city 300 miles south of Beijing.

   2014 December 1, William Wan, “Once a cop, now an outcast: A Chinese tale of abuse and a craving for justice”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2014, World

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   Sometime in the afternoon, we reached Hantan, a town of forty thousand people along the now defunct Peiping-Hankow Railway. Although the first real city I had seen since leaving Kuomintang areas, Hantan was only half alive.

   [1949, Jack Belden, “Traveling Companions”, in China Shakes the World, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 38

   The coking-coal center of Fengfeng in southern Hopei, for example, was among the first places designated as a mining district, about 1951, and was raised to the status of city in 1954. (Two years later, it was incorporated into the expanding urban complex of Hantan.)

   [1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map National and Regional Development, 1949-71, Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 317

   Xiufen Xie, 53, was born in a village near Handan City, Hebei Province, China. Her story was originally published in an official Chinese newspaper in 1998.

   2001, “People with Disabilities”, in Falun Gong Stories: A Journey to Ultimate Health, Golden Lotus Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37