Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Honghu.
In Hung-hu, on the Hupeh-Hunan border, Ho Lung began to organize a new army from the farmers of the two provinces.
1972, Helen Foster Snow, “Ho Lung, China's Red Robin Hood”, in The Chinese Communists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 2943 more examples
On November 25, 1931, the Politburo warned the leaders of this soviet area that it was wrong to abandon the Hung-hu Lake base and flee north; the poor advice having originated with Teng, the Politburo ordered the Provincial Committee to censure Teng, which it did in a resolution passed on December 9, 1931, charging him with escapism, pessimism, and the like, and requesting the Politburo to remove him from all work and subject him to Party discipline.
1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Teng Chung-hsia”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 816, column 1They have constructed such major water conservancy projects as the Chang [3361] River reservoir which irrigates 3 million mou of farmland, the Hsin-tien-men [2450 1131 7024] River, and the drainage sluices in the new dikes along Hung-hu Lake.
1975 October 8 [1975 July 9], Ho Lin [0149 2651], “The New Features of Hupeh Province, the "Hub of Nine Provinces"”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, number 321, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong CHING-CHI TAO-PAO No 27 pp 14-17, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 7A pity that Agnes never had the opportunity of meeting Ho Ying, the sister of General Ho Lung, who herself was so gallant a commander of forces around the Hung Hu Lake in Hupei in the early thirties before she gave her life for her cause.
[1977 March, “Book Section”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50, column 2
Origin
- Mandarin洪湖
- EnglishHung-hu
From Mandarin 洪湖 (Hónghú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-hu².
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