Hengshui
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See also: Héngshuǐ
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Hengshui
- A prefecture-level city in Hebei, China.
- 1891 May 29, “Western Shantung”, in North-China Herald[1], volume XLVI, number 1243, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 662, column 2:
- The dust-storms have been not merely unintermittent, but of a frightful character, even for North China. Within the past two or three weeks they have taken the form of violent winds, each of which at sea would almost make a young typhoon. In the Hengshui district we hear that the roof of a theatrical pavilion was blown for miles, and that two children were blown away, one killed, and the other never heard of.
- [1970, Annual summary of information on natural disasters 1966[2], Belgium: Unesco, →OCLC, page 26[3]:
- The New China agency reported that numerous building and houses collapsed but that the number of casualties was less than on 8 March, when people had been caught in their sleep. The worst damage was done at Hsing-t’ai, Heng-shui and Shih-chia-chuang [1]; numerous aftershocks (Nos. 186-90) were felt in the same region up to 29 March.]
- 1981 April 12, L. Chen, “Disastrous acts of dismounting”, in Free China Weekly[4], volume XXII, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- The People's Daily on March 3 demanded that "hsia ma" items be attended to with proper rehabilitation efforts. "Through maximum utilization, dead things should be brought back alive," the editorial on page 1 urged.
Two-thirds of page 2 was devoted to a description of how an iron mill at Hengshui, Hopei province, was torn into pieces and sold at giveaway prices.
Translations[edit]
prefecture-level city
Further reading[edit]
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hengshui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1267, column 1