Guanghua
See also: guānghuá
English
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization): Kwanghua
- (from Wade–Giles) Kuang-hua
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 光化 (Guānghuà).
Proper noun
Guanghua
- A subdistrict of Laohekou, Hubei, China.
- [1887 June 24 [June 9, 1887], “Abduction Case”, in North-China Herald, volume XXXVIII, number 1039, Shanghai, OCLC 311405954, page 697, column 1:
- The Governor of Kirin reports the following case : Hu Yu-ch‘uan, a native of the Kuang-hua district in Hupeh, enlisted there in 1865 and rose by degrees to the position of Lieutenant-Colonel.]
- [1971 February, Communist China: Expansion Of The Railroad Network Since 1966, Central Intelligence Agency, published 2004, pages 5-6:
- 6. The Wu-han - Ch'ung-ch'ing rail line, located in Hupeh, Shensi, and Szechwan Provinces, was originally started in 1958 as an 800-km connection between Wu-han and Sian in Shensi Province. This line was operational to the vicinity of a hydroelectric complex near Kuang-hua by the end of 1966, when roadbed construction was halted. However, work continued during the Cultural Revolution on a major railroad bridge over the Han River near Kuang-hua.]
- 1976, Esherick, Joseph W., Reform and Revolution in China: the 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei, University of California Press, →ISBN, LCCN 75-17297, OCLC 185278769, OL 5195481M, page 197:
- Zhang Guoquan, a soldier in the cavalry, collaborated with secret society members in the Patrol and Defense Forces to capture Laohekou and the nearby district capital of Guanghua on November 28.
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Translations
subdistrict in central China
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