Meaning of Paoting | Babel Free

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“Ting Hsien is one of the outstandingly rich districts of Hopei; Paoting may be better considered as representative of the agrarian condition on the plain of this province. A rural survey of Paoting was carried out by the National Research Institute of Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, in co-operation with the Peiping Institute of Social Research.”

“In 1900 Feng had his first fleeting contact with foreigners. When Boxers became active in the Paoting area, the troops stationed there were ordered to suppress them. The officers, however, admired the Boxers’ anti-foreign activity, and ignored their orders. Boxer drills were openly conducted in the vicinity of Paoting until April, when an order came through commanding the military to train the Boxers.”

“PAOTING (CH’ING-YÜAN, TSINGYUAN), capital of Hopeh province, China, is 90 mi. (145 km.) S.W. of Peking on the Peking-Hankow railway.”

“In North China, NLVC headquarters moved from Peiping to Paoting, one of the three reconcentration points for NLVC members. There, they rallied to the support of Sun Ku-ying, Shih Yu-san, and other 29th Army commanders. However, the Japanese blitzkrieg made effective resistance impossible. On September 24, Paoting fell.”

“Rampaging turmoil of looting food and weapons and armed struggles in the Paoting district of Hopei Province are expanding and threatening the security of the "capital" of Peiping, according to an intelligence report in Taipei.”

“HAINAN COUNTY FLOODS—The leadership organs at all levels in Paoting County adopted emergency measures to reduce the losses caused by typhoons and rainstorms to the minimum and tried by every way possible to reap n bumper harvest.”

“The memorial service for him took place in Tungtsa on the morning of 15 November. Wreaths were sent by[…]responsible comrades of the autonomous prefectural and Chiungchung, Paoting and Paisha County party committees; and (Wang I-ching's) friends, some 190 people in all.[…] Present at the memorial service were[…]Secretary of the Paoting County party committee (Yang Wen-kuei);[…]and (Wang I-ching's) relatives and friends, some 1,100 people in all.”

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