Huai-pei

English

Map including HUAI-PEI (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 淮北 (Huáiběi), Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-pei³.

Proper noun

Huai-pei

1. Alternative form of Huaibei
   • 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920‎^[1], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:

     Next, at the provincial distributing centers such as Ta-t'ung, Shasi, and Hankow were the important brokers (hang-shang, lit., "guild merchants") or salt hongs, who purhcased the salt for resale, or arranged its resale, to the provincial distributors, who themselves went by a variety of names: in Hupei, p'u-fan (lit., "store merchants") for the urban areas and shui-fan (lit., "water merchants") for the backcountry; in Huai-pei, hu-shang (lit., "lake merchants"); in Szechwan an-shang (lit., "port merchants"). These in turn sold to the public, either through their own shops or through petty retailers and peddlers.

   • 2002, Annping Chin, Four Sisters of Hofei‎^[2], Scribner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3:

     During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.

   • 2009, Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction‎^[3], Penguin Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 190–191:

     In the first half of the nineteenth century, Hudson and den Boer write, the Huai-pei region of northeast China had a series of natural disasters.

   • 2015, Valerie M. Hudson, The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy‎^[4], Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 81:

     The Nien originally formed during 1851 in the Huai-pei region, as it was known at the time.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huai-pei.

Translations

Huaibei — see Huaibei