Huguan

• (from Wade–Giles) Hu-kuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 壺關／壶关 (Húguān).

Huguan

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • [1956, “Recruiting in Communist China”, in Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States‎, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 273:

     Methods of selecting only the best men have been worked out. Not everyone who wants to join the army is accepted by any means. […]
     In Hukuan County in southern Shansi, only 1,400 men were approved out of 2,101 who wanted to go.]

   • 1982 September, Zhang, Haiqing, “Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area”, in China Reconstructs‎, volume XXI, number 9, →OCLC, page 43:

     THE dense forests and deep ravines of the Taihang Moutnaisn once made southeastern Shanxi province one of China's more backward areas in transportation.[...]A commune in Huguan county once went in for collecting mountain products such as fruit and medicinal herbs, in the hope that they could be got out, but because of insufficient transport a thousand tons of them rotted one year.

   • 2008, Shahar, Meir, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts‎, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:

     When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1329, column 2