Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Dongxihu.
The reclamation project at Tunghsihu in Wuhan suburb is the largest wasteland reclamation project in Hupeh to be carried out this winter and next spring.
1962, Robert Carin, State Farms in Communist China, 1947-1961, →OCLC, page 2153 more examples
Personnel of unit 8207 supporting the left at (Tunghsihu) have run Mao-thought study courses for the local poor and lower-middle peasants and "rapidly dug out class enemies who were sabotaging the campaign to grasp revolution and promote production."
1969 February 19 [1969 February 17], “Wuhan PLA Arms Masses with Mao's Thought”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 34, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Central-South Region, page D 4The revolutionary committees of Hungshan District and (Tunghsihu) farm both held "broadcast mobilisation rallies" to propagate the fine record of Li to the poor and lower-middle peasants. In the "Hungchi" shop in Wuchang, the staff set up a propaganda station to conduct propaganda among customers.
1970 July 15 [1970 July 13], “Wuhan Opens Campaign to Learn from Local Hero Li”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 136, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, page D 11The Wuhan Municipal Public Security Bureau and the Municipal Mid-level People's Court jointly held a public trial and sentencing in Hankou's Chung Shan Park on the morning of November 27, and arrested 21 criminals including the robber Chen Ta-chiao in accordance with the law. Liu Hung-Shun was sentenced to death with immediate execution for[…] walked to Hsinkou Farm at Tunghsihu. There Liu took out his knife and hacked the unsuspecting Shih to death, stole from him 300 yuan and a watch, and made his escape; he was later tracked down by the public security agencies and arrested. For this heinous crime, the Tunghsihu District People's Court sentenced Liu to death on October 16.
1980 April [1979 November 27], “Thirty-One Publicly Tried For Robbery And Rape”, in Inside China Mainland, volume 2, Institute of Current China Studies, sourced from Hupei People's Radio Station, →OCLC, page 19, columns 1, 3
Origin
- Mandarin東西湖 /东西湖
- EnglishTunghsihu
Borrowed from Mandarin 東西湖 /东西湖 (Dōngxīhú); Wade–Giles romanization: Tung¹-hsi¹-hu².
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