Huguan
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Hu-kuan
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 壺關／壶关 (Húguān).
Proper noun
Huguan
- A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
- [1956, “Recruiting in Communist China”, in Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 273:
- Methods of selecting only the best men have been worked out. Not everyone who wants to join the army is accepted by any means. […]
In Hukuan County in southern Shansi, only 1,400 men were approved out of 2,101 who wanted to go.]
- 1982 September, Zhang, Haiqing, “Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 9, OCLC 7513641, page 43:
- THE dense forests and deep ravines of the Taihang Moutnaisn once made southeastern Shanxi province one of China's more backward areas in transportation.[...]A commune in Huguan county once went in for collecting mountain products such as fruit and medicinal herbs, in the hope that they could be got out, but because of insufficient transport a thousand tons of them rotted one year.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1329, column 2