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Paokang
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English
Etymology
From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 61 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/61/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Paokang zh 保康縣 Hupeh zh 湖北 31.52N 111.23E borrowed from en cmn 保康.
Proper noun
en Baokang.
en November 5, 1932 China's Outstanding Probelm- The Suppression of the "Reds" The China Weekly Review https://archive.org/details/millards-1932.11.05/ 62 10 52770868 !62-450 https://archive.org/details/millards-1932.11.05/page/410/ 1, 2 Ho Lung’s troops have in the mean- time arrived at Paokang and Fanghsien in the north-western section of Hupeh, while the other column has captured Tanghsien and Chenping in Honan, according to the reports received at Hankow.
en 1934 White Unto Harvest in China: A Survey of the Lutheran United Mission, the China Mission of the N.L.C.A., 1890-1934 https://archive.org/details/whiteuntoharvest0000unse/ 23011557 91 https://archive.org/details/whiteuntoharvest0000unse/page/91/ About in the center of this mountainous country lie the city and district of Paokang. The district or county is large, but it is not so thickly populated as the plains in China.
en 1971 Dick Wilson The Long March 1935: The Epic of Chinese Communism's Survival https://archive.org/details/longmarch1935epi00wils/ New York w:Viking Press 0-670-43845-6 73-174663 219788716 22007830M 238 https://archive.org/details/longmarch1935epi00wils/page/238/ While Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh were organizing their soviet at Kiangsi in the 1929-30 period, Ho Lung had set up a base on the borders of Hunan and western Hupeh. His Second Army had merged with Tuan Teh-chang's Sixth Army to form the II Army Corps, under Ho's command, to defend the new soviet. But in January 1931 his men had been defeated by the Kuomintang and withdrew—with only 5,000 survivors, according to one account⁷— to Paokang in north-west Hupeh.
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Translations
Baokang
References
Further reading
en 1952 Paokang or Pao-k’ang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1425 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1425/ 1