Huang-pei

English

Map including HUANG-PEI (HWANPEI) (walled) 黃陂 (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃陂／黄陂 (Huángbēi) Wade-Giles romanization: Huang²-pei¹.

Proper noun

Huang-pei

1. Alternative form of Huangbei (Huangpi)
   • 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965‎^[1], volume 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press‎^[2]:

     Hsu was born in Huang-p'i (Huang-pei), an agricultural community not far north of Wuhan

   • 1976, Charlton M. Lewis, Prologue to the Chinese Revolution: The Transformation of Ideas and Institutions in Hunan Province, 1891-1907‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 28:

     On October 18, when John was traveling through Huang-pei, some twenty miles north of Hankow, a Hupeh scholar gave him a copy of a letter from Chou, a well-known Hunanese literatus,⁵⁷ to T'an Chi-hsun, the Hunanese governor of Hupeh.

Translations

Huangpi — see Huangpi

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hwangpei or Huang-p’ei”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 819, column 2