Hupeh
Britishnoun
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Born in Hupeh province to a poor peasant family, Li received at best a patchwork education and in his teens was apprenticed to a carpenter.
From Time Magazine Archive
North of Hunan there were significant stirrings in Hupeh province.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Chinese embassy in Moscow has imported a cook from Hupeh province whose spiced cabbage and chicken receives favorable mention on the diplomatic dinner circuit.
From Time Magazine Archive
On May Day some 150,000 Japanese troops began the first big drive of spring 1940 against Chinese forces on the plateau in northern Hupeh and southern Honan near Hankow, bomb-gutted "Chicago of China."
From Time Magazine Archive
The chief cause of this, as of the riots in Hupeh, was the dissemination of an alleged decree of 26th June praising the Boxers and ordering the authorities to imitate the north in exterminating foreigners.
From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)
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