Haoxue

See also: hǎoxué and hàoxué

English

Map including Ho-hsüeh (DMA, 1975)

Alternative forms

• Hosüeh (Postal Romanization)
• Hao-hsüeh (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 郝穴 (Hǎoxué).

Proper noun

Haoxue

1. A town in Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
   • [1978 July 19 [1978 July 14], Hsu Kuang-ta, “How the Hunghu Red Base Area Was Built”, in Daily Report People's Republic of China‎^[1], Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from People's Daily and Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 4‎^[2]:

     After a certain period of regrouping, our troops launched an attack at Haohsueh where we wiped out an entire Kuomintang battalion, thus winning the first major victory since the founding of the Hunghu base area. We later liberated Laohsinkou, Mienyang, Chienchiang and other cities and townships.]

   • 1984, Summary World Broadcasts: The Far East‎^[3], →OCLC, page 2:

     FLOATING WATERWORKS China's first shipborne waterworks has gone into operation on the Yangtze in Jiangling county, Hubei. The double-decked waterworks is capable of producing 10,000 of potable water a day for the 15,000 residents of Haoxue.

   • 2014, Jiayan Zhang, Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949‎^[4], UBC Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:

     The personnel and organizations responsible for the collection of the earth fee varied considerably from place to place and changed over time. In Jiangling, for example, as early as 1801 two (government-run) tuju (earth bureaus) were set up in Shashi and Haoxue to collect the earth fee.

   • 2015, Deshan Xiong, Social History of China‎^[5], New York: SCPG Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:

     In 1906 (32nd year of Guangxu's reign), while studying in the preparatory high school attached to Hexunliangdeng Academy in Haoxue Town of Jiangling County, he and his schoolmate Hu Egong founded the Furen Association, and began the rebellion again^{[sic – meaning against]} the Qing Dynasty.

Translations

town in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 郝穴 (Hǎoxué)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can