Hung-hu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 洪湖 (Hónghú) Wade–Giles romanization: Hung²-hu².

Proper noun

Hung-hu

  1. Alternative form of Honghu
    • 1971, Donald W. Klein; Anne B. Clark, “Teng Chung-hsia”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965, volume 2, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 816, column 1:
      On November 25, 1931, the Politburo warned the leaders of this soviet area that it was wrong to abandon the Hung-hu Lake base and flee north; the poor advice having originated with Teng, the Politburo ordered the Provincial Committee to censure Teng, which it did in a resolution passed on December 9, 1931, charging him with escapism, pessimism, and the like, and requesting the Politburo to remove him from all work and subject him to Party discipline.
    • 1972, Helen Foster Snow, “Ho Lung, China's Red Robin Hood”, in The Chinese Communists, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 294:
      In Hung-hu, on the Hupeh-Hunan border, Ho Lung began to organize a new army from the farmers of the two provinces.
    • [1977 March, “Book Section”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 50, column 2:
      A pity that Agnes never had the opportunity of meeting Ho Ying, the sister of General Ho Lung, who herself was so gallant a commander of forces around the Hung Hu Lake in Hupei in the early thirties before she gave her life for her cause.]

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