Huang'an

alternative Huang-an

1. Synonym of Hong'an.

   In Huang’an county, in Hubei, more than 100,000 villagers were killed; in Xin county, in Henan, 80,000.

   1999, Philip Short, “Futian: Loss of Innocence”, in Mao: A Life (Non-Fiction Biography), Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 282–283

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   In Huang’an County of Hubei, almost all rural school teachers were Communists during the period of the First United Front. This was one of the most important reasons why Huang’an became a Communist stronghold after 1927.

   2005, Xiaorong Han, “Patterns of Intellectual-Peasant Relations”, in Chinese Discourses on the Peasant, 1900-1949 (SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) (Asian Studies / History), State University of New York Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 130

   First he stayed with the Geng brothers in Huang’an county in northern Huguang (nowadays Hubei province). In 1585 he and Geng Dingxiang (1524-1596) had a serious falling-out, so he sent his unloved wife back to Fujian, shaved his head Buddhist-style to show he had cut all family ties (of his eight children, only one daughter survived), and moved to neighboring Macheng county where he took up residence in a large Buddhist resort and inn.

   2012, John W. Dardess, “Literati”, in Ming China, 1368-1644: A Concise History of a Resilient Empire, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, History / China, page 98

   Synonyms: Hong'an