Huang-an

Hoangcheu commands over nine Cities, as Hoangcheu, Lotien, Maching, Hoangpi, Hoanggan, Kixui, Ki, Hoangmui, Hoangci.

[1669 [1665], John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 14

Rev. K. N. Tvedt of St. Paul, United States Lutheran United missionary, held captive by Chinese Communists near Hwangan, northern Hupeh, since last October 17, was released yesterday on payment of ransom by the mission. The Lutheran mission's home here was advised Mr. Tvedt had arrived at Sungfow, south of Hwangan, en route to Hankow.

[1931 April 20, “CHINA BANDITS PAID TO RELEASE U.S. CHURCH MAN”, in Victoria Daily Times, volume 78, number 93, Victoria, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

Born in 1886 in Huang-an county, Hupeh, in a large gentry family headed by scholars and teachers, Tung received a classical education and passed the imperial official (Confucian) examinations at the age of sixteen.

1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 553

Huang-an county in Hupei, with a pre-1934 population of some 160,000, had but 66,000 in 1953. For six years after the Communist retreat the eighty-li stretch between Hsin-hsien and Lo-t'ien in Hupei remained entirely leveled by the Nationalists and turned into a no-man's-land.

1959, Ping-ti Ho, “Catastrophic Deterrents”, in Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 (Harvard East Asian Studies), number 4, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250

Lin was born in 1907, probably in the village of Liu-chia-wan, Huang-an county, Hupeh Province. Lin’s native village is about fifty miles downstream from the Yangtse River spot where Mao Tse-tung, in the summer of 1966, undertook the historic swim that dramatized his vigorous return to the Chinese political scene.

1970, Martin Ebon, “Boy from Hupeh (1907-1930)”, in Lin Piao: The Life and Writings of China's New Ruler, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17