Huanggang
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Etymology edit
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黃岡/黄冈 (Huánggāng).
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Huanggang
- A prefecture-level city in Hubei, China.
- [1977, Roy, Jr. Hofheinz, The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928[1], Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47[2]:
- In Huangkang, Hupeh, the one non-Communist association, far from being easily absorbed, declared itself to be the holy peasant association and had to be suppressed violently.]
- 2020 January 31, Martin Pollard, Thomas Peter, David Stanway, “Travellers beat China virus lockdown via bridge over the Yangtze”, in Stephen Coates, Mike Collett-White, editors, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 02 February 2020, WORLD NEWS[4]:
- The Yangtze divides Jiujiang in Jiangxi province and Huanggang in neighbouring Hubei, one of the cities hardest hit by the coronavirus outbreak and now sealed off from the rest of China to try to contain it.
- 2020 December 30, Dake Kang Kang, Sam McNeil, Maria Cheng, “China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins”, in AP News[5], archived from the original on 30 December 2020[6]:
- These enormous gaps in the research aren’t due just to a lack of testing but also to a lack of transparency. Internal data obtained by the AP shows that by Feb. 6, the Hubei CDC had tested over 100 samples in Huanggang, a city southeast of Wuhan. But the results have not been made public.
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huanggang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1322, column 3