Anhwei

English

Map including part of ANHWEI 安徽省 (AMS, 1954)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: änʹhwāʹ

Proper noun

Anhwei

  1. Alternative form of Anhui
    • CIFRC-associated cooperative movements were flourishing in Chahar, Hopei, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Hunan, and Shensi (to whose cooperative program the commission had lent personnel and technique).
    • 1970, Ying-wan Cheng, Postal Communication in China and its Modernization, 1860-1896, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-120316, OCLC 906049572, page 24:
      When Tseng Kuo-fan (1811-1872) was encamped at Chʻi-men in southern Anhwei in 1860, he asked his brothers at Anking to send all important correspondence by one of the Hunan Braves and leave only relatively unimportant messages to be transmitted through the I-chan.
    • 1979 January 28, “Insufficient food”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 4, Taipei, page 3:
      Leaders from Red China's provinces admitted openly neither food nor clothing has been suffient[sic – meaning sufficient] in the rural areas on the mainland for years.
      . . .
      According to the daily, the accurate picture of villages all over the mainland was first revealed by a group of "party secretaries" at the prefectural level from the province of Anhwei.
      . . .
      The Kyodo News Service claimed that the situation in Anhwei Province as revealed by prefectural level "party secretaries" may be considered he norm for other provinces and villages on the mainland.
    • 2002, Chin, Annping, Four Sisters of Hofei, Scribner, →ISBN, LCCN 2002073343, OCLC 248866825, page 3:
      During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.

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