"Hu Nan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1888, E. H. Parker, Chinese Account of the Opium War, →OCLC, →OL, page 27",
          "text": "The thousand or so of men newly arrived from Hu Nan were at once sent by K'ISHEN to the front. The Cantonese fled the moment the engagement began; but the Hu Nan men fought as they retreated, and half of them were drowned, together with their Commander SIANGFUH.",
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          "ref": "1889, Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, New York: Presbyterian House, →OCLC, page 136",
          "text": "From Kong Wa, a district in the Southern Hu Nan Province, the names of ten men have been sent to Lien Chow as inquirers and applicants for baptism. During the year four men from Hu Nan, one a literary graduate, have been baptized and received into the Lien Chow church, all bearing testimony to the spirit of inquiry that is spreading among the people in that district.",
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          "ref": "1898 September, W. R. Carles, “THE YANGTSE CHIANG”, in The Geographical Journal, volume XII, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 236",
          "text": "It is said at Hankau that boats can travel up stream 4000 li by three different routes—the Yangtse Chiang, the Yuan river in Hu Nan, and the Han river.",
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          "ref": "[1898, Archibald John Little, “Shanghai to Ichang”, in Through the Yang-tse Gorges, 3rd edition, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, →OCLC, page 33",
          "text": "We passed the walled district city of I-tu, situated upon a small affluent called the Ching Chiang, or Clear River, which takes its rise in the province of Hu-Nan to the south.]",
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          "ref": "1997, Jim Nisbet, Prelude to a Scream, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 99",
          "text": "The family that had brought Hop Toy to the United States as a little boy were from the Hu Nan province, whose food was reputed to be hot, spicy, and wholesome. But they eschewed nothing edible, so far as Stanley could tell; any kind of vegetable, fish, fowl or meat, the Hu Nan kitchen could countenance it, and prepare it well.",
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          "ref": "2007, Leonard C. Meeker, Philosophy and Politics, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 255",
          "text": "It was then that Mao Tse-tung, who had his roots in rural central China, proclaimed that Chinese Communism must be based on the peasantry. Quite independent of Moscow, he built a new Communist movement in rural Hu Nan Province in central China.",
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          "ref": "2008, Lester A. Mitscher, Victoria Dolby Toews, The Green Tea Book: The Science-Backed \"Miracle Cure\", →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90",
          "text": "A clinical investigation of the possible benefits of green tea poly' phenols for radiation and chemotherapy patients was conducted at the Hu Nan province Hospital of Carcinology in China.",
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          "ref": "2009, Y.J. Zhu, “Taklamakan Desert Moon Ride”, in Lucy McCauley, editor, The Best Women's Travel Writing 2009: True Stories from Around the World (Travelers' Tales), →ISSN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175",
          "text": "He rides a Yellow Hornet and is from Hu Nan province. We have chatted about our bikes in the sandstorm.",
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        "Alternative form of Hunan"
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          "ref": "1888, E. H. Parker, Chinese Account of the Opium War, →OCLC, →OL, page 27",
          "text": "The thousand or so of men newly arrived from Hu Nan were at once sent by K'ISHEN to the front. The Cantonese fled the moment the engagement began; but the Hu Nan men fought as they retreated, and half of them were drowned, together with their Commander SIANGFUH.",
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          "text": "From Kong Wa, a district in the Southern Hu Nan Province, the names of ten men have been sent to Lien Chow as inquirers and applicants for baptism. During the year four men from Hu Nan, one a literary graduate, have been baptized and received into the Lien Chow church, all bearing testimony to the spirit of inquiry that is spreading among the people in that district.",
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          "text": "It is said at Hankau that boats can travel up stream 4000 li by three different routes—the Yangtse Chiang, the Yuan river in Hu Nan, and the Han river.",
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          "text": "It was then that Mao Tse-tung, who had his roots in rural central China, proclaimed that Chinese Communism must be based on the peasantry. Quite independent of Moscow, he built a new Communist movement in rural Hu Nan Province in central China.",
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          "text": "A clinical investigation of the possible benefits of green tea poly' phenols for radiation and chemotherapy patients was conducted at the Hu Nan province Hospital of Carcinology in China.",
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          "text": "He rides a Yellow Hornet and is from Hu Nan province. We have chatted about our bikes in the sandstorm.",
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