Hupei

H4U1P3E1I1

A form of Hubei — A province in central China. Capital: Wuhan.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

proper noun

alternative also Hu-pei

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of Hubei.

    The Rev. Ching Yen, a native of Hupei, was called Huang Hsing-hua before he became a novice in 1935.

    1976 March 14, “Monk's body still intact six years after death”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 10, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2
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    The late Shang and early Western Chou civilization appear to have had some contact with the Szechwan Neolithic, as indicated by the remains of li tripods of gray and cord-marked ware, and sherds of tou of the Bronze Age style found in the Yangtze Valley in the extreme eastern end of Szechwan Province, where it adjoins Hupei.

    1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, page 413

    Tseng, with neither experience nor a following in Hupei, was of course more dependent on Peking than were those who had run the province since 1958.

    1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 169

    Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).

    1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2023, page 51

    Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school.

    1992, Kirk A. Denton, “WEN I-TO”, in Edwin Pak-wah Leung, editor, Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839–1976, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 461

    According to the biographer Ssuma Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.), Lao Tzu came from the southern state of Ch’u, which is now the provinces of Hunan and Hupei.

    2005, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Sheryl Martin, “Introduction to Taoism”, in The Tao of Dreaming, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5

Origin

From Mandarin 湖北 (Húběi) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-pei³.

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