Hunan
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Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in S China. 81,274 sq. mi. (210,500 sq. km). Changsha.
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Chinese Cooking. Also Hunam a style of cooking from this province, characterized especially by the use of hot peppers.
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The study was led by an international team that included Professor Minxue Shen from the Xiangya School of Public Health at Central South University in Hunan, China.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
The site where the fossils were found in the southern Chinese province of Hunan was "extraordinary," Han Zeng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences told AFP.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
Away from the big screen, provincial broadcaster Hunan Television produced what it billed as a fully AI-generated made-for-smartphone microdrama.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025
Liberal MP Keith Wolohan's channel has clips of him celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival with his kids and enjoying spicy Hunan food with his father.
From BBC • May 1, 2025
On terminating his connection with that institution, after it was broken up by Boxers, he was recalled to China to take charge of a university for the two provinces of Hupeh and Hunan.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
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