Huoshan
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Huo-shan
Etymology
From Mandarin 霍山 (Huòshān).
Proper noun
Huoshan
- A county of Lu'an, Anhui, China.
- 1959 June 15, Walker, Richard L., “Letters from the Communes”, in The New Leader, volume XLII, number 24, ISSN 0028-6044, OCLC 809204801, Section Two, page 6:
- Hundreds and thousands of people joyfully beat gongs and drums to deliver their applications and resolutions to local Party committees and governments. The people of Manshui District, Huoshan County, walked 40 miles to deliver their resolutions to the local Party committees.
- 1975 March, An Hung, “Domesticating Musk Deer”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 3, OCLC 7513641, page 47:
- To meet the rising needs for this medicinal raw material, in 1958 workers at the Huoshan county medical supply and marketing department in Anhwei province set up a farm to domesticate the animal.
- 2004, Plummer, Janelle, “Introduction”, in Community Participation in China: Issues and Processes for Capacity Building, →ISBN, LCCN 2004002463, OCLC 1023456598, OL 8952378M, page 17:
- The Piyuan Canal Rehabilitation Project presented in Chapter 9 is one component of the China—Netherlands Poverty Alleviation Project (CNPAP), being implemented in Huoshan County, Anhui Province.
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Translations
county
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huoshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1337, column 3