Meaning of Hupei | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of Hubei.

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Examples

“The late Shang and early Western Chou civilization appear⟳ to have⟳ had some contact⟳ with the Szechwan Neolithic, as indicated by the remains of li tripods of gray and cord-marked ware, and sherds of tou of the Bronze Age style found in the Yangtze Valley in the extreme eastern end⟳ of Szechwan Province, where it adjoins Hupei.”

“Tseng, with neither experience⟳ nor a following in Hupei, was of course more dependent on Peking than were those who had run⟳ the province since 1958.”

“The Rev. Ching Yen, a native of Hupei, was called Huang Hsing-hua before he became a novice in 1935.”

“Wu Hai, whose objections to contamination of the patrilineal line were cited above, described an ancestral hall (tz'u-t'ang) of the Lins of Lo-t'ien (Hupei).”

“Wen I-to was the eldest son of a renowned scholar family of Hsi-shui County in Hupei Province. At an early age he was trained in the classics by a disciplinarian father, and at then he was sent to Wuchang (a day's trip⟳ from Hsi-shui) to study⟳ at a modern grade school.”

“According to the biographer Ssuma Ch’ien (145-86 B.C.), Lao Tzu came from the southern state of Ch’u, which is now the provinces of Hunan and Hupei.”

“Different places have⟳ different names for shadow puppet theater.[…] in Hupei it is known by the name⟳ "Leather shadow theater."”

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