Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hepu.
It remains to tell how Chiang Hsing-ko, one year after he had acquired this lady to look after his home, made another trading expedition into Kwangtung province. One day he visited the pearl-fisheries at Ho-p’u.
1958, Cyril Birch, transl., Stories from a Ming Collection, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 912 more examples
From this passage we know not only of the prosperity of the pearl trade of Ho-p’u but also of the existence of a keen competition in the trade between Ho-p’u and Chiao-chih. Moreover, the fact that merchants of Ho-p’u regularly went to Chiao-chih to import cereals also reveals a close economic intercourse between the two areas conducted through coastal trade.
1967, Ying-shih Yü, “Overseas Trade”, in Trade and Expansion in Han China: A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations, University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181Li Chun-hua, first secretary of the Ho-p’u county committee of the CCP in Kwangtung province, and Ho Wen-li, a section head of the Ho-p’u County Cooperative, reported in the Canton Southern Daily in October 1958:[…]
1980, P’eng Shu-tse, edited by Leslie Evans, The Chinese Communist Party in Power, New York: Monad Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194
Origin
- Mandarin合浦
- EnglishHo-p'u
From Mandarin 合浦 (Hépǔ), Wade–Giles romanization: Ho²-pʻu³.
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