Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Huai'an.
The Kiangsu salt-gabelle (Tls. 120,000) and native customs at Hwaian (Tls. 30,000) took that of the two Foochow customs combined.
1920, Hosea Ballou Morse, The Trade and Administration of China, Shanghai: Longmans, Green and Co., page 1285 more examples
Hwaian. From Hwaian it turns southwestward passing over the southeastern corner of the Hungtse Lake (which will also be reclaimed) to Suyi, in Anhwei.
1922, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 144While the Government armies have not been able to destroy the Communist forces in northern Kiangsu, they dealt them a severe blow by taking Hwaian on 17 September.
1946, “Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Volume X”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), United States Department of StateChou's life bridged traditional and revolutionary China. He was born in the waning years of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1898—the exact date is unclear— in the eastern city of Hwaian, in Kiangsu Province.
1979, Alden Whitman, “The Political Career of Chou En-lai”, in China Yesterday and Today, 2nd edition, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 441She spent her very early years in the ancient city of Hwaian (now spelled Huaian) in the eastern section of China. Hwaian sits on the banks of the Grand Canal, the world's oldest and longest artificial waterway at more than 1000 miles.
2005, Marylou Morano Kjelle, “"Spook Baby"”, in Katherine Paterson (Classic StoryTellers), Hockessin, Delaware: Mitchell Lane Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14In the spring of 1917 Nelson knew enough Chinese to take the big clinic at the larger, rich city of Hwaian, ten miles south on the Grand Canal.
December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 41
Origin
From the Postal Romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 淮安 (Huái'ān).
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