Hung-hu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 洪湖 (Hónghú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-hu².

Proper noun

Hung-hu

1. Alternative form of Honghu
   • 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Teng Chung-hsia”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965‎^[1], volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 816, column 1:

     On November 25, 1931, the Politburo warned the leaders of this soviet area that it was wrong to abandon the Hung-hu Lake base and flee north; the poor advice having originated with Teng, the Politburo ordered the Provincial Committee to censure Teng, which it did in a resolution passed on December 9, 1931, charging him with escapism, pessimism, and the like, and requesting the Politburo to remove him from all work and subject him to Party discipline.

   • 1972, Helen Foster Snow, “Ho Lung, China's Red Robin Hood”, in The Chinese Communists‎^[2], Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 294:

     In Hung-hu, on the Hupeh-Hunan border, Ho Lung began to organize a new army from the farmers of the two provinces.

   • 1975 October 8 [1975 July 9], Ho Lin [0149 2651], “The New Features of Hupeh Province, the "Hub of Nine Provinces"”, in Translations on People's Republic of China‎^[3], number 321, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Hong Kong CHING-CHI TAO-PAO No 27 pp 14-17, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 7:

     They have constructed such major water conservancy projects as the Chang [3361] River reservoir which irrigates 3 million mou of farmland, the Hsin-tien-men [2450 1131 7024] River, and the drainage sluices in the new dikes along Hung-hu Lake.

   • [1977 March, “Book Section”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[4], volume XVI, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50, column 2:

     A pity that Agnes never had the opportunity of meeting Ho Ying, the sister of General Ho Lung, who herself was so gallant a commander of forces around the Hung Hu Lake in Hupei in the early thirties before she gave her life for her cause.]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hung-hu.

Translations

Honghu — see Honghu