Hekou
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Hekou
- A Yao autonomous county in Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China, near Lào Cai, Vietnam.
- [1978 May 24 [1978 May 21], “57,000 Persecuted Overseas Chinese Residing in Vietnam Have Returned to China”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[1], volume I, number 101, sourced from Hong Kong TA KUNG PAO, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page N 5[2]:
- Hokou County in Yunnan Province and Lao Kay in Vietnam are separated by a river. The two banks of the river are full of wandering Overseas Chinese refugees.]
- 1983 April 20, Christopher S. Wren, “PEKING WARNS HANOI ON BORDER CLASHES”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World[4]:
- On Monday night, the New China News Agency said militiamen in Yunnan's Hekou County had ambushed Vietnamese infiltrators before dawn on Sunday, killing four of them and capturing a machine gun and four submachine guns.
- [2001, Alexander Hosie, “Ta-chien-lu to the Tibetan frontier and back”, in Mr Hosie's Journey to Tibet, 1904: A Report by Mr A. Hosie, His Majesty's Consul at Chengtu, on a Journey from Chengtu to the Eastern Frontier of Tibet[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:
- On arrival at the hamlet of Ying-kuan-chai, over-looked by a ruined Tibetan fort, which we reached by a wooden bridge spanning the stream and by following the latter’s right bank to the end of the valley, I held a meeting of all the drivers, and informed them that the Commissary at Ta-chien-lu had distinctly stated to me that the animals supplied to me at Ta-chien-lu would take me right through to Ho-k’ou, a five days’ march, and that I would have no trouble with change of transport as far as that place.]
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- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hekou”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1261, column 3