Citations:Hopei

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English citations of Hopei

Hebei Province[edit]

  • 1936, H. Hessell Tiltman, The Far East Comes Nearer[1], Jarrolds, page 247:
    At vast demonstrations held at Peiping, Canton, Shanghai, and elsewhere, thousands of students denounced the seditious movement in Eastern Hopei.
  • 1946, Lin Yutang, The Vigil of a Nation[2], William Heinemann, page viii:
    I am personally willing to assist in any international group to visit various localities in Hopei to verify the burial alive of hundreds of people who refused to co-operate with the "anti-Japanese" Red regime and were therefore "traitors". Such things do not make Edgar Snow angry.
  • 1980 November 16, “Police of New York town learn martial art from Taiwan champ”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XXI, number 45, Taipei, page 2:
    Chang, nicknamed the "Flying Butterfly" because of his graceful movements, learned his skill from the age of seven in his native province of Hopei on the China mainland, which is considered the cradle of kung fu.
  • n.d., “Other Names for Shadow Puppet Theater”, in Kaohsiung Museum of History[4], archived from the original on 07 October 2023[5]:
    Different places have different names for shadow puppet theater. []
    In Hopei Province, it is known as "Luanchou Shadow Theater,"

Hubei/Hupei Province as 'Hopei'[edit]

(Note: In English language media, Hopei 河北 (Héběi) Province (with an o and an e) and Hupei 湖北 (Húběi) Province (with an u and an e) are sometimes confused. A parallel category of systematic errors can also be seen with the pairs Hebei/Hubei and Hopeh/Hupeh. See also: Talk:Hubei, Citations:Hebei#Hubei Province as 'Hebei' and Citations:Hopeh#Hubei/Hupeh Province as 'Hopeh'.)

  • 1968, Lucian W. Pye, “The Political Process in Action: The Communes”, in The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psychocultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development[6], M.I.T. Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 203:
    From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei[sic – meaning Hupei], and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.
  • 1976, Alan P. L. Liu, “Group Conflict & Violence”, in Political Culture & Group Conflict in Communist China[7], Clio Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 96:
    In accounting for the outbreak of violent group conflict in various places, the most immediate causes have been cited, e.g., access to weapons, the presence of groups skilled in combat and the degree of an elite division. The social and economic similarities of cities and provinces where violent struggles and protracted group conflicts took place in 1967 and 1968 are, however, also impressive reasons. Several cities, Fushun, Anshan and Fousin (Liaoning),¹³² Taiyuan (Shansi), Hofei (Anhwei), Chengchow (Honan), Wuhan (Hopei[sic – meaning Hupei]), Canton (Kwangtung) and Chengtu (Szechwan), experienced similar circumstances.
  • 2002 [145–86 BCE], Chʻien Ssu-ma, “The Lord of Ch'un-shen”, in William Nienhauser, Tingting Zhou, editors, The Grand Scribe's Records[8], volume VII, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 406:
    According Wu and Lu (78.2304, n. 4), the Sui River referes to the part of Yün River when it flows through Sui , a county almost 80 miles northwest of modern Wuhan in Hopei[sic – meaning Hupei] (T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 1:29).