Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hebei.
We left Tachai in the morning to catch a train for Chengchow via Shih-chia-chuang, the capital of Hopeh Province.
1977, Yee Chiang, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1002 more examples
As a top political officer in north China, Lo took an active part in a series of campaigns, mainly in Hopeh, from the fall of 1947 to January 1949.
1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Lo Jui-ch’ing”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, volume II, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 643, column 1Until 1958 Tientsin was an independent municipality administered directly by the government in Peking; at that time it became a part of the province of Hopeh and also the provincial capital.
1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1
Origin
From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 河北 (Héběi).
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