Hong'an

• (from Wade–Giles) Hung-an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 紅安／红安 (Hóng'ān).

Hong'an

1. A county of Huanggang, Hubei, China.
   • 1997, Xiaobo Lü; Elizabeth J. Perry, editors, Danwei: The Changing Chinese Workplace in Historical and Comparative Perspective‎, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, LCCN 97-9979, OCLC 718263465, OL 8054308M, page 199:

     At the city’s No. 2 Mill, on the other hand, the management signed a collective contract with the neighboring Hong’an county government, thus utilizing bureaucratic channels, in the belief that a group from one home place would be “easier to control.”

   • 2002, Perry, Elizabeth J., Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China‎, →ISBN, LCCN 2001034214, OCLC 920767988, page 295:

     [...]villages in Hong'an County, Hubei had expended nearly 200,000 yuan in 1983 for making "clan dragon-lanterns" (xingshi longdeng).

   • 2007 December 28, “8 found killed in lime plant in Hubei”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 31 December 2007:

     Eight people, including a nine-year-old child, were found brutally killed early Thursday morning at a village lime plant in Hong'an County, central China's Hubei Province.

• Huang-an

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hong'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1304, column 3

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