Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Hong'an.
Li Hsien-nien is a native of Huang-an County (now known as Hung-an) in eastern Hupeh Province.
1992, “LI HSIEN-NIEN”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2063 more examples
Initiated by rural cadres of Hupeh province in 1957, the cultivation of experimental plots was particularly successful in Hung-an hsien .
1960, Communist China, volume 2, →OCLC, page 46Hung-an county report on their experimental plots is a very important document. I have read it twice and ask all of you read it. The “four abundances,” the “three desirables” and the “three undesirables” mentioned in the Hung-an report are nationwide problems.
1965 [1958 January 11], “Talks At The Nanning Conference”, in Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, volume I, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 3125?In Hung-an County, the old revolutionary base, Party organs at various levels frequently educate militiamen and the broad masses in revolution tradition linking up with everyday reality.
1973, Union Research Service, volume 73, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4
Origin
- Mandarin紅安 /红安
- EnglishHung-an
From Mandarin 紅安 /红安 (Hóng'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-an¹.
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