Hupei

• (also from Wade-Giles) Hu-pei

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

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 77-162858, OCLC 195365, OL 4583663M, 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 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, 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, editor, Kinship Organization in Late Imperial China 1000-1940‎, University of California Press, →ISBN, 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.

• “Hupei”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “Hupei” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.