Huguan

English

Alternative forms

• Hu-kuan (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Huguan

1. A county of Changzhi, Shanxi, China.
   • [1956, “Recruiting in Communist China”, in Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States‎^[1], 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.]

   • [1978 February 21 [1978 February 15], “County in Shansi Improves Fiscal Economic Discipline”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[2], volume I, number 35, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 2‎^[3]:

     The Hukuan County CCP Committee has seriously implemented the instructions of Chairman Hua and the party Central Committee, carried forward the party's traditions and work style and actively rectified fiscal and economic discipline.]

   • 1982 September, Haiqing Zhang, “Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area”, in China Reconstructs‎^[4], 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, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts‎^[5], 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).

   • 2008, “Jia Fangzhou”, in Zhu Wei's Album of Ink Painting‎^[6], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 509, column 1:

     Born in Huguan County in Shanxi, Xia Fangzhou graduated from the Art Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1964 and worked for museums and newspapers for many years.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壺關／壶关 (zh) (Húguān)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huguan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1329, column 2