Xihua

The Honan authorities do not appear to have been successful in maintaining order and suppressing brigandage. Amongst the innumerable acts of lawlessness reported, one of the most daring occurred in the early part of December when a band of 500 mounted robbers attacked the district city of Hsi-hua Hsien, and after looting the town departed unmolested, taking with them some of the leading inhabitants for whose release they demanded a ransom.

[1914 April [1912], “Summary by Sir S. Head of General State of Affairs in the Provinces of China for last quarter of 1912”, in Further Correspondence Respecting the Affairs of China., London, →OCLC, page 9

Led contingent of New 4th Army, operating with Eastern Honan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla 3rd Detachment, Aug. 1938; Hsiao’s contingent, 3rd Detachment, and a section of 4th Division, New 4th Army, led by P’eng Hsüeh-feng joined forces in Hsihua (西華) county and re-grouped to be a guerrilla detachment of New 4th Army, Sept. 1938; detachment became known as 6th Detachment, Noy. 1939;[…]

蕭望東

[1966 March, “HSIAO Wang-tung [蕭望東]”, in Who's Who in Communist China, Kowloon, Hong Kong: Union Research Institute, →OCLC, page 223, column 1

While the May 30th Movement is usually perceived by historians as essentially a Communist-instigated urban proletarian movement, in the suburban countryside in Xihua county the antiforeign struggle attracted a sizable number of peasants. Surprisingly, the Xihua boycott in Youth Village (qingnian cun) was organized in the name of a peasant organization, the Central Plain Peasant Association (Zhongyuan nongmin xiehui).

1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47