Hupei

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Etymology

From Mandarin 湖北 (Húběi) Wade-Giles romanization: Hu²-pei³.

Proper noun

Hupei

  1. Alternative spelling of Hubei
    • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, page 413:
      The late Shang and early Western Chou civilization appear to have had some contact with the Szechwan Neolithic, as indicated by the remains of li tripods of gray and cord-marked ware, and sherds of tou of the Bronze Age style found in the Yangtze Valley in the extreme eastern end of Szechwan Province, where it adjoins Hupei.
    • 1971, Deborah S. Davis, “The Cultural Revolution in Wuhan”, in The Cultural Revolution in the Provinces, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 169:
      Tseng, with neither experience nor a following in Hupei, was of course more dependent on Peking than were those who had run the province since 1958.
    • 1976 March 14, “Monk's body still intact six years after death”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 10, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
      The Rev. Ching Yen, a native of Hupei, was called Huang Hsing-hua before he became a novice in 1935.
    • 1986, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, James L. Watson, editors, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940, University of California Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 7 October 2023, page 51:
      Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).
    • 1992, Edwin Pak-wah Leung, WEN I-TO (Historical Dictionary of Revolutionary China, 1839-1976), Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 461:
      Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip from Hsi-shui) to study at a modern grade school.
    • 2005, Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Sheryl Martin, “Introduction to Taoism”, in The Tao of Dreaming, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5:
      According to the biographer Ssuma Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.), Lao Tzu came from the southern state of Ch’u, which is now the provinces of Hunan and Hupei.
    • n.d., “Other Names for Shadow Puppet Theater”, in Kaohsiung Museum of History, archived from the original on 07 October 2023:
      Different places have different names for shadow puppet theater. []
      in Hupei it is known by the name "Leather shadow theater."
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hupei.

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