Huangpi

See also: Huángpí and huāngpì

English

Alternative forms

• Huang-p'i (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 黃陂／黄陂 (Huángpí).

Proper noun

Huangpi

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, formerly a county.
   • 1892, The Anti-Foreign Riots in China in 1891‎^[1], Shanghai, →OCLC, page 185:

     Now, I will mention another fact which has just come under my notice. One of our native evangelists left us on Monday last for Huangpi, a city distant from Hankow only twenty or thirty miles. He returned last night, and came to see me early this morning. He has brough bakc with him two printed copies of one of the Hunan publications, which is now being printed and actively circulated in the city of Huangpi through the medium of the pawn-shops....At the beginning of last year one of our converts in Hunan sent me a printed copy of this book, so there can be no doubt as to its origin. It is written in fluent mandarin, and is entitled, Death to the Devils' Religion (鬼教該死). Of all the Hunan publications, I do not know one more violent, more abusive, more filthy, or more inflammatory than this. It finishes up with a song, which is committed to memory by the children of Huangpi, and sung in the streets. I felt inclined for a moment to give you a translation of this song. But it is impossible ; it is too dirty and vile for your columns.

   • 1929 April 6, “Hankow in Hands of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[2], volume XLVIII, number 6, →OCLC, page 226, column 1:

     The main forces of the Wu-Han armies were concentrated on the line extending from Yanglo to Hsiaokwan by way of Huangpi.

   • 1998, Ma Chengyuan, “Ritual Bronzes-Epitome of Ancient Chinese Civilization”, in China 5,000 Years‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:

     Bronzes of the middle period include...bronzes from some of the sumptuous Shang tombs at Panlong city in Huangpi county, Hubei Province.

   • 2023 January 31, Gu Ting, Gao Feng, Cheryl Tung, “China's COVID-19 death statistics 'certainly much higher' than reported: WHO”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Malcolm Foster, Radio Free Asia‎^[4], archived from the original on 31 January 2023‎^[5]:

     "The moment they relaxed the COVID-19 restrictions, the number of deaths spiked sharply," said Chen Heyang, a person close to the civil affairs department in Wuhan, where the pandemic first emerged three years ago.
     He said his home district of Huangpi had reported around 5,000 deaths in the month since the lockdowns and travel bans of zero-COVID were lifted. "There are around 900,000 people living in Huangpi district, and more than 5,000 deaths in this one month, which is several times the usual [death rate]," he said.

   • 2023 July, “Limitations of the official 2019 Wuhan cases based on Primary Sources”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], archived from the original on 07 October 2023, page 40:

     On January 3, 2020, Liu Jie's mother told a reporter from China Business Daily, that their family is from the rural area of Sanlizhen in Wuhan Huangpi District.

Synonyms

• Huang-pei, Hwangpei

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃陂／黄陂 (zh) (Huángpí)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huangpi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1322, column 3