Hoonan

English

Proper noun

Hoonan

  1. Alternative form of Hunan.
    • 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 39:
      The Tung-ting-hoo, in Hoonan, is said to be 220 miles in circumference. It receives the waters of several southern rivers, which, rising in Kwangse and Kweichow, find their way through this lake to the Yang-tsze-keang. From the eastern side of the Tung-ting-hoo to the city of Woo-chang-Foo, over an area of about 200 miles east and west, by 80 north and south, the course of the Yang-tsze-keang lies between a great number of lakes almost touching one another; which circumstance gives to the provinces Hoopih and Hoonan their names, north and south of the lakes.
    • 1855 October, “Political Disturbances in China”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume CII, number CCVIII, Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 351:
      The crowds of idle and indolent vagabonds which infested the rural and suburban population found proper aliment in this commotion and joined the movement in gangs. Still, this threatening insurrection took eighteen months to pass out of Kwangsee, through the Hoonan province up to the banks of the river Yangtsze, — a distance not exceeding 700 miles.
    • 1870 April, G. W. Caine, “Report on Trade at Hankow during 1868.”, in Commercial Reports from Her Majesty's Consuls in China and Siam. 1869., number 7, London: Harrison and Sons, →OCLC, page 82:
      Such eagerness and competition as this, regardless of quality and almost of price, is the fruitful encouragement to teamen of carelessness in the manufacture of both the tea and the packages. The result has proved that in all the Oopack (Hoopeh) districts, this carelessness had already commenced, and the competitive rush had been well anticipated by the teamen; for the teas turned out to have been hurriedly prepared; much mixed with old leaves of the previous year’s growth; quite unfit for the long journey before them; and packed in chests much too frail for their increased bulk. It was supposed here that the teas from one or two of the Oopack districts were superior, and of proper quality, but the result proved that from all the so-called Oopack districts (though one of them is in Hoonan) of Yang-low-tung, Yang-low-see, Nep-ka-see, Lung-yaong, and Chang-so-kiè, the yield has been inferior.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hoonan.
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