Anhwei
- a variation of Anhui.
Example Sentences
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Born in 1880 of poorest parents, in Anhwei Province, he nearly starved during one of the periodic famines caused by overflow of the Yellow River, called "China's Sorrow."
From Time Magazine Archive
Provincial authorities in central China mobilized nearly half a million workers to build a 160-mile canal between Honan, Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces, linking several of central China's major rivers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Anhwei, where no rain has fallen for two months, 9,000,000 peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow, one paralleling the swollen Yangtze, the other striking overland through southern Anhwei Province, last week were bogged down by heavy rains, inefficient transport.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Anhwei, where Wang Lung was born, the language is slow and deep and it wells from the throat.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
