Paokang

Paokang

1. Alternative form of Baokang
   • 1932 November 5, “China's Outstanding Probelm- The Suppression of the "Reds"”, in The China Weekly Review‎, volume 62, number 10, OCLC 52770868, page 62-450, columns 1, 2:

     Ho Lung’s troops have in the mean- time arrived at Paokang and Fanghsien in the north-western section of Hupeh, while the other column has captured Tanghsien and Chenping in Honan, according to the reports received at Hankow.

   • 1934, White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934‎, OCLC 23011557, page 91:

     About in the center of this mountainous country lie the city and district of Paokang. The district or county is large, but it is not so thickly populated as the plains in China.

   • 1971, Dick Wilson, The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival‎, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, LCCN 73-174663, OCLC 219788716, OL 22007830M, page 238:

     While Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh were organizing their soviet at Kiangsi in the 1929-30 period, Ho Lung had set up a base on the borders of Hunan and western Hupeh. His Second Army had merged with Tuan Teh-chang's Sixth Army to form the II Army Corps, under Ho's command, to defend the new soviet. But in January 1931 his men had been defeated by the Kuomintang and withdrew—with only 5,000 survivors, according to one account⁷— to Paokang in north-west Hupeh.

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