Haoxue
See also: hǎoxué and hàoxué
English
Map including Ho-hsüeh (DMA, 1975)
Alternative forms
- (postal romanization) Hosüeh
- (from Wade–Giles) Hao-hsüeh
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 郝穴 (Hǎoxué).
Proper noun
Haoxue
- A town in Jiangling, Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- 1984, Summary World Broadcasts: The Far East, OCLC 271777211, page 2:
- FLOATING WATERWORKS China's first shipborne waterworks has gone into operation on the Yangtze in Jiangling county, Hubei. The double-decked waterworks is capable of producing 10,000 of potable water a day for the 15,000 residents of Haoxue.
- 2014, Jiayan Zhang, Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736-1949, UBC Press, →ISBN, OCLC 862781744, OL 28789857M, page 55:
- The personnel and organizations responsible for the collection of the earth fee varied considerably from place to place and changed over time. In Jiangling, for example, as early as 1801 two (government-run) tuju (earth bureaus) were set up in Shashi and Haoxue to collect the earth fee.
- 2015, Xiong, Deshan, Social History of China, New York: SCPG Publishing, →ISBN, OCLC 921866056, page 106:
- In 1906 (32nd year of Guangxu's reign), while studying in the preparatory high school attached to Hexunliangdeng Academy in Haoxue Town of Jiangling County, he and his schoolmate Hu Egong founded the Furen Association, and began the rebellion again[sic – meaning against] the Qing Dynasty.
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Translations
town in central China
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