Hongtong

Hóngtóng English Hongtong County thumb|Map including HONGTONG (National Imagery and Mapping Agency NIMA, 1998) Alternative forms en Hung-t'ung Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 洪洞. Pronunciation en /hɒŋˈtɒŋ/ /hʊŋˈtʊŋ/ ho͝ong′to͝ong′cf. Hungtung 815 2 en Hong tong Proper noun en county prefecture-level city/Linfen province/Shanxi c/China. en 1996 Peter J. Seybolt Houhua Village Under New Leadership, 1984-1990 Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait of a Village Leader in China, 1923-1995 https://archive.org/details/throwingemperorf00seyb/ w:Westview Press 0-8133-3130-7 96-32797 487447523 115 https://archive.org/details/throwingemperorf00seyb/page/115/ The Wang Family Register now records the names of eighteen generations of the descendants of Wang Erlao, our founding ancestor. Wang Erlao came to this area from Hongtong County in Shanxi Province several hundred years ago. en 2008 w:David S. G. Goodman The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZh09y8CB5oC w:Routledge 0-203-93117-3 2007045216 176946114 106 https://books.google.com/books?id=ZZh09y8CB5oC&pg=PA106 Hongtong County's welfare entrepreneursHongtong County, located within Linfen City, is part of one of the most economically dynamic prefectures in Shanxi Province and presents some good examples of emergent welfare entrepreneurialism. en 2019 Lijun Zhang; Ziying You Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice https://books.google.com/books?id=vWOwDwAAQBAJ w:Indiana University Press 978-0-253-04409-9 1057859032 28712583M 126 Yao and Shun's Stories in HongtongCounty, Shanxi ProvinceShanxi, one of China's northern provinces, is renowned for its long history, old temples, and rich coal resources. Hongtong is a county in the prefecture-level city of Linfen, in the southwestern part of the province. Currently, Hongtong is the most populated county in the city of Linfen, occupying an area of 1,563 square kilometers, with a population of 733,421 in 2010.² It has nine towns (zhen zh 镇) and seven townships (xiang zh 乡), including 463 villagers' committees that govern 902 natural villages (Zhang and Wang et al. 2005). Hongtong is well-known for its former status as an immigration transfer center during the Ming dynasty. en Translations county Chinese: Cantonese: yue 洪洞 Mandarin: cmn 洪洞 Hóngtóng Japanese: ja References Further reading en 1998 Hongtong Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1304 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1304/ 3