Kungan
English
editProper noun
editKungan
- Alternative form of Gong'an
- 1944 May 29, “Japanese Gain On Changsha In Hunan Drive”, in J. A. H. Hopkins, editor, New York Herald Tribune (Diary of World Events)[1], volume XXXVIII, Chungking: National Bureau of Information and Education, →OCLC, page 6995:
- At the same time, another enemy force struck westward between Tungting Lake and the Yangtse River, and the thrust appeared to be developing into a push on Kungan, Hupeh Province about seventy-five miles northwest of Yoyang. Kungan already has witnessed the blight of previous enemy occupations.
- 1972, James Pinckney Harrison, “Growth of the Rural Soviets”, in The Long March to Power: A History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-72 (Praeger University Series)[2], Praeger Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:
- In 1929, they moved east to link with guerrilla forces led by Tuan Teh-ch’ang in Kungan County, southern Hupeh, and later farther east to the area around Hung Lake (Hung Hu, as this soviet is also known) about 80 miles southwest of Wuhan, where Communists had been active since 1925.
Translations
editGong'an — see Gong'an