Hopeh

English

Map including HOPEH PROVINCE 河北省 (AMS, 1954)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hōʹpā

Proper noun

Hopeh

  1. Alternative form of Hebei
    • 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 643:
      As a top political officer in north China, Lo took an active part in a series of campaigns, mainly in Hopeh, from the fall of 1947 to January 1949.
    • 1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1140, column 1:
      Until 1958 Tientsin was an independent municipality administered directly by the government in Peking; at that time it became a part of the province of Hopeh and also the provincial capital.
    • 1977, Chiang, Yee, China Revisited, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:
      We left Tachai in the morning to catch a train for Chengchow via Shih-chia-chuang, the capital of Hopeh Province.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hopeh.

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