Lao-ho-k'ou

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 老河口 (Lǎohékǒu), Wade–Giles romanization: Lao³-ho²-kʻou³.

Proper noun

Lao-ho-k'ou

1. Alternative form of Laohekou
   • 1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90:

     American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and would take revenge and return and bomb the city and do a lot of damage.”

   • 1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei‎^[2], New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     For Yen Hsüeh-mei, the Shanghai-bred nurse, life in northern Hupei must have represented a striking change. Lao-ho-k'ou was the headquarters of General Li Tsung-jen, commander of the Fifth War Area.[...]But physical privation was nearly universal and in many ways Lao-ho-k'ou was an interesting place to be. The Political Department of the Fifth War Area operated a Japanese language school there, with two hundred Chinese students in 1939. The classes were conducted by members of the Korean Volunteer unit and by Japanese prisoners of war who were sent to Lao-ho-k'ou for indoctrination. Lao-ho-k'ou was also the site of six industrial cooperatives which employed refugees in a variety of trades.

   • 1980, Sherman Cochran, Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry, 1890-1930‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:

     After two years of building up its operations in this way at two locations, Wei-hsien in Shantung province and Lao-ho-k'ou in Hupeh, BAT in 1915 procured over 2 million pounds of bright tobacco grown from American seed,' 435,000 pounds of flue-cured, almost all from Wei-hsien, and 1,750,000 of sun-cured, most of it from Lao-ho-k'ou.

Translations

Laohekou — see Laohekou