Huojia
See also: huòjià
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Huo-chia
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 獲嘉／获嘉.
Proper noun
Huojia
- A county of Xinxiang, Henan, China.
- [1969, Liu, James J. Y., “Biographical Sketch”, in The Poetry of Li Shang-yin, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, LCCN 68-30695, OCLC 21710, page 14:
- At the time of the poet’s birth, his father Li Ssu was serving as magistrate of Huo-chia district (in modern Honan).]
- 1980, “The Masses Dare to Speak”, in Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, OCLC 7199734, OL 9159758M, pages 191-192:
- In February, we received a letter signed the poor and lower middle peasants of Xiaoxiguan Brigade located in Huojia County, Henan, exposing Liu Wenhao, a national government cadre in their brigade and the vice-director of the county external trade bureau, for his squandering and wastefulness in holding a wedding feast for his son. We sent the letter to the Chinese Communist Party Committee of Xinxiang Region, asking them to help us investigate. The Xinxiang Regional Committee, together with the Huojia County Committee, organized an investigation team to do some on-the-spot research.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huojia”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1337, column 2