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Hubei

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See also:HúběiandHu Bei

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Etymology

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From theHanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of theMandarin湖北(Húběi), literally "north of the lake", referring to Hubei's position north ofDongting Lake.

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Hubei

  1. Aprovince in centralChina. Capital:Wuhan.
    • 1970, R. F. Price, “Part-time schools and classes”, in Brian Holmes, editor,Education in Communist China (World education series)‎[3], New York; Washington:Praeger Publishers,→LCCN,→OCLC,page213:
      In 1965 thePeople’s Daily published sore figures for Yangxinxian inHubei Province which showed how important the part-work schools were in raising school attendance figures (SCMP 3475, 1965).
    • 1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, “From the Founding of the Communist Party to the Reorganization of the Guomindang: July 1921–January 1924”, inPaul Auster,Lydia Davis, transl.,China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation[4],Pantheon Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page144:
      The Communists were also very active inHubei and Hunan; they were involved in strikes in the Wuhan arsenal and steelworks and the strike of the Anyuan coal miners, and in the formation of workers’ clubs and unions among miners, metal-workers, and textile workers. These workers’ organizations were grouped together in provincial union federations of Hunan (with Mao Tsetung as secretary) and ofHubei.
    • 2015 November 30, Maximiliane Koschyk, “COP21: China's climate efforts far from sufficient”, inDeutsche Welle[5], archived fromthe original on30 November 2015, Climate‎[6]:
      The Three Gorges Dam inHubei province is the largest in the country, but is also one of the most controversial hydroelectric plants in the world. An estimated 1.3 million people were forcibly relocated during its construction. Moreover, the reservoir has been polluted by industrial waste.
    • 2020 February 9, Gerry Shih, “Coronavirus deaths climb as China corrals sick in quarantine facilities in outbreak epicenter”, inThe Washington Post[7],→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on09 February 2020, Asia & Pacific‎[8]:
      Cases have been heavily concentrated in Wuhan and surrounding areas ofHubei province, which has been locked down for two weeks in an attempt to contain the virus.
    • 2020 March 24, Ken Moritsugu, “China to lift lockdown in most of virus-hit Hubei province”, inAP News[9], archived fromthe original on03 December 2021[10]:
      Chinese authorities said Tuesday they will end a two-month lockdown of most of coronavirus-hitHubei province at midnight, as domestic cases of what has become a global pandemic subside.

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Translations

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province in central China

See also

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  • Not to be confused withHebei.
Province-level divisions of thePeople's Republic of China in English(layout ·text)
Provinces:Anhui · Fujian · Guangdong · Gansu · Guizhou · Henan · Hubei · Hebei · Hainan · Heilongjiang · Hunan · Jilin · Jiangsu · Jiangxi · Liaoning · Qinghai · Sichuan · Shandong · Shaanxi · Shanxi · Taiwan (claimed) · Yunnan · Zhejiang
Autonomous regions:Guangxi · Inner Mongolia · Ningxia · Tibet Autonomous Region · Xinjiang
Municipalities:Beijing · Tianjin · Shanghai · Chongqing
Special administrative regions:Hong Kong · Macau

References

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  1. ^“Selected Glossary”, inThe Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1],Cambridge University Press,1982,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,pages476, 479:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,[]Hu-pei (Hubei)湖北
  2. ^Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hupeh or Hupei”, inThe Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[2], Morningside Heights, NY:Columbia University Press,→OCLC,page816, column 3

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