Tanghe

Feng Yuan-chun was born in 1900 in Tangho County, Honan Province. She graduated from the former Women’s Normal University in Peking and obtained the degree of Doctor of Literature at the Soibonne.

[1958, Feng Yuan-chun, “About the Author”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., A Short History of Classical Chinese Literature (China Knowledge Series), Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 124

[…]T'ang-ho County where the Feng family lived for several generations, did not seem to be affected in any[…]T'ang-ho County to do business from their original home in Kao-p'ing (高平) County in Shansi Province, more than[…]north of T'ang-ho County.⁶

[1991, Lu-jun Yin, Against Destiny: Feng Yu-Lan and a New Hermeneutics of Confucianism (Dissertation), Stanford University, →OCLC, pages 11, 12

In Nanyang Prefecture's Tanghe County, party secretary Bi Kedan was an enthusiast of the Great Leap Forward. In the autumn of 1958, Tanghe County set up 4,617 steel furnaces, and hoes, shovels, and other farming implements were sent to the smelters.

2012 [2008], Jisheng Yang, “The Epicenter of the Disaster”, in Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, 1st American edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 82