Hongtong

See also: Hóngtóng

English

Map including HONGTONG (NIMA, 1998)

Alternative forms

• Hung-t'ung (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪洞 (Hóngtóng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɒŋˈtɒŋ/, /hʊŋˈtʊŋ/

Proper noun

Hongtong

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • 1996, Peter J. Seybolt, “Houhua Village Under New Leadership, 1984-1990”, in Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait of a Village Leader in China, 1923-1995‎^[1], Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

     The Wang Family Register now records the names of eighteen generations of the descendants of Wang Erlao, our founding ancestor. Wang Erlao came to this area from Hongtong County in Shanxi Province several hundred years ago.

   • 2008, David S. G. Goodman, editor, The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives‎^[2], Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:

     Hongtong County's welfare entrepreneurs
     Hongtong County, located within Linfen City, is part of one of the most economically dynamic prefectures in Shanxi Province and presents some good examples of emergent welfare entrepreneurialism.

   • 2018 April 19, “Environment watchdog follows up chemical waste TV exposure”, in Mu Xuequan, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[3]:

     Shanxi provincial department of environmental protection, along with the government of Linfen City, which administers Hongtong County, has sent a team of investigators to the county to look for possible malpractice, the department said.

   • 2019, Lijun Zhang, Ziying You, editors, Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice‎^[4], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:

     Yao and Shun's Stories in Hongtong
     County, Shanxi Province
     Shanxi, one of China's northern provinces, is renowned for its long history, old temples, and rich coal resources. Hongtong is a county in the prefecture-level city of Linfen, in the southwestern part of the province. Currently, Hongtong is the most populated county in the city of Linfen, occupying an area of 1,563 square kilometers, with a population of 733,421 in 2010.² It has nine towns (zhen 镇) and seven townships (xiang 乡), including 463 villagers' committees that govern 902 natural villages (Zhang and Wang et al. 2005). Hongtong is well-known for its former status as an immigration transfer center during the Ming dynasty.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hongtong.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洪洞 (zh) (Hóngtóng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hongtong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1304, column 3