Haoxue

alternative Hosüeh · alternative Hao-hsüeh

1. A town in Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.

   FLOATING WATERWORKS China's first shipborne waterworks has gone into operation on the Yangtze in Jiangling county, Hubei. The double-decked waterworks is capable of producing 10,000 of potable water a day for the 15,000 residents of Haoxue.

   1984, Summary World Broadcasts: The Far East, →OCLC, page 2

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   After a certain period of regrouping, our troops launched an attack at Haohsueh where we wiped out an entire Kuomintang battalion, thus winning the first major victory since the founding of the Hunghu base area. We later liberated Laohsinkou, Mienyang, Chienchiang and other cities and townships.

   [1978 July 19 [1978 July 14], “How the Hunghu Red Base Area Was Built”, in Daily Report People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from People's Daily and Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original by Hsu Kuang-ta (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 4

   The personnel and organizations responsible for the collection of the earth fee varied considerably from place to place and changed over time. In Jiangling, for example, as early as 1801 two (government-run) tuju (earth bureaus) were set up in Shashi and Haoxue to collect the earth fee.

   2014, Jiayan Zhang, Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949, UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55

   In 1906 (32nd year of Guangxu's reign), while studying in the preparatory high school attached to Hexunliangdeng Academy in Haoxue Town of Jiangling County, he and his schoolmate Hu Egong founded the Furen Association, and began the rebellion again^([sic – meaning against]) the Qing Dynasty.

   2015, Deshan Xiong, Social History of China, New York: SCPG Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106