anhwei

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1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Anhui: A province in eastern China.

   “CIFRC-associated cooperative movements were flourishing in Chahar, Hopei, Anhwei, Kiangsi, Hunan, and Shensi (to whose cooperative program the commission had lent personnel and technique).”

   “When Tseng Kuo-fan (1811-1872) was encamped at Chʻi-men in southern Anhwei in 1860, he asked his brothers at Anking to send all important correspondence by one of the Hunan Braves and leave only relatively unimportant messages to be transmitted through the I-chan.”

   “Another time a fleet of boats carrying some eighty northern Hupeh natives migrating to Anhwei tied up at a vacant pier claimed by Han-ch’uan natives, and when a boat of Han-ch’uan men showed up they initiated a fatal knife fight in defense of their turf.”

   “During the nineteenth century, parts of Shantung and Honan provinces and much of Anhwei were ravaged by the Nien bandits from Huai-pei.”