Huang-pei

Another interesting discovery was that these Middle Shang vessels, once their true historical importance was realized, turned out to be found not only in the relatively small territory traditionally considered to be the realm of the Shang dynasty but far beyond its borders. The first find of this type occurred in 1958 at Huang-pei-hsien, near Wuhan, Hupei Province. This suggests that Middle Shang culture was spread over an area far larger than previously assumed, a fact that may have been of great importance for the evolution of local bronze cultures during the following Chou period.

[1973, Jan Fontein, Tung Wu, “Shang Bronzes”, in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 28, column 2

On October 18, when John was traveling through Huang-pei, some twenty miles north of Hankow, a Hupeh scholar gave him a copy of a letter from Chou, a well-known Hunanese literatus,⁵⁷ to T'an Chi-hsun, the Hunanese governor of Hupeh.

1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 28