Heping

See also: hépíng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 和平 (Hépíng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hŭʹpǐngʹ[1]

Proper noun

Heping

  1. A district of Tianjin, China.
    • 2020 March 4, Cao Li, “A ‘Blue Great Wall’ Divides a City as It Battles the Coronavirus”, in The Washington Post[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 March 2020[3]:
      When the coronavirus struck, local officials sprang into action. The district of Heping in particular seized on the city’s huge supply of blue-colored construction walls as a way to stop the virus’s spread. It helps that Tianjin neighbors Hebei Province, an industrial area where steel mills are plentiful and supplies can be easily found.
  2. A county of Heyuan, Guangdong, China.
    • [1968 June 18 [1968 June 17], “PLA Helps Smash Class Enemies in Kwangtung”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 119, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Cantonese, →OCLC, Communist China: Central-South Region, page D 8[4]:
      With the help of the PLA, the (Joshui) commune revolutionary committee in Hoping County has relied on and mobilized the militiamen and the masses to smash the plot of a handful of class enemies, to "overthrow the revolutionary committee by using the feudalist clan concept," and to deal severe blows at the evil wind of rightist reversal of verdicts.]
    • [1978 December 20 [1978 December 9], “Kwangtung County Exoneration Rally”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 245, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Canton Kwangtung Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 5:
      On 23 November the Hoping County CCP Committee held a broadcast rally attended by 15,000 people to publicly reverse verdicts on the so-called "renegade clique" and to rehabilitate the titles of cadres, staff and workers who were persecuted and their dependents who were implicated.]

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References

  1. ^ cf. Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hoping or Ho-p’ing”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 800, column 3