Citations:Hunan

English citations of Hunan

• [1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE VI. HU-QUANG.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 100:

  The Southern Part of the Province.
  The Firſt City, Chang-cha-fu, the Capital.
  THIS is the chief City of the Southern Part of Hû-quang, which the Chineſe call Hû-nan.]

• [1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[2], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 39:

  The Tung-ting-hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yang-tsze-keang. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting-hoo to the city of Woo-chang-Foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yang-tsze-keang lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, north and south of the lakes.]

• 1873 April, “Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the several Matters relating to Coal in the United Kingdom”, in Edinburgh Review‎^[3], volume CCLXXX, page 488:

  It has only of late years been made known that the coal fields of China extend over an area of 400,000 square miles; and a good geologist. Baron Von Richthofen, has reported, that he himself has found a coal field in the province of Hunan covering an area of 21,700 square miles, which is nearly double of our British coal area of 12,000 square miles.

• 1899 May, “Report of Permanent Committee on Christian Endeavor”, in Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church‎^[4], volume 69, Nashville, TN, page 21a:

  Foreign Missions.—Pursuing the Fulton pledge system of two-cents-a-week-for-Missions, our young people have contributed to the support of their representative in China, Rev. T. J. Preston. He has recently gone to our station at Chang-teh, in the Hunan Province, China.

• 1909, “OLIGOBOTRYA HENRYI”, in Curtis's Botanical Magazine‎^[5], volume 5, page 8238:

  The specimens on which the original description of O. Henryi was based were sent to Kew in 1886 by Mr. A. Henry, who had obtained them at Patung in Hupeh, Central China. Since then species has been met with in the adjoining provinces of Hunan and Szechuan.

• 1917 April 6, “HONG KONG”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎^[6], number 52a, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce, page 14:

  Toward the end of 1916 the Siems-Carey Co., allied with the American International Corporation, entered into a contract with the Chinese Government for the construction, among others, of a railway in the district-the Chuchow-Chinchow Line-which is to connect southern Hunan with the eastern seaboard of Kwangtung.

• 1948, Bernward H. Willeke, Imperial Government and Catholic Missions in China During the Years 1784-1785‎^[7], St. Bonaventure, New York: Franciscan Institute, page 31:

  On the day after the feast of Pentecost (May 31, 1784) the three boats left Chao-ch'ing and without any mishap passed all the customs stations in Kwangtung, Kwangsi and Hunan.

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Beginnings (1924-1927)”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[8], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 42–43:

  The first task was to clear the Hunan province of all hostile forces so as to make it possible for the various armies to converge on Wuhan area, including Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang on the Yangtze.

• 1960, “Stepping-stones to Japan”, in The Picture History of World War II 1939-1945‎^[9], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 214:

  Changteh, in northern Hunan Province, was captured from the Japanese on Dec. 9, in the winter campaign of 1943, after some of the bloodiest fighting of the entire Sino-Japanese war.

• 1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art‎^[10], New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, columns 1, 2:

  In addition to glazed ceramics we have, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like those found at An-Yang. The first discovery of these woods was an accident, occurring at railroad excavations of the early 1930s in the South China province of Hunan, at the city of Ch’ang-Sha.

• 1976 August 29, “Mao Tse-tung's four marriages”, in Free China Weekly‎^[11], volume XVII, number 34, Taipei, page 3:

  Mao was born in Hunan in November 1893.

• 1999, Red Pine, Mike O'Connor, editors, The Clouds Should Know Me By Now‎^[12], →ISBN, page 44:

  Ch'i-chi, whose family name was Hu, was born in the Ch'ang-sha area of Hunan.

• 2021 August 2, “Millions under virus lockdown as China battles Delta outbreak”, in France 24‎^[13], archived from the original on 02 August 2021‎^[14]:

  The central city of Zhuzhou in Hunan province ordered over 1.2 million residents on Monday to stay home under strict lockdown for the next three days as it rolls out a citywide testing and vaccination campaign, according to an official statement.