Hopeh

/ ˈhəʊˈpeɪ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Hebei

Example Sentences

A glimpse of southern Hopeh province came last week in a letter from a Roman Catholic missionary whose name cannot be used.

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Though Teng escaped arrest and was not formally expelled from the Communist Party, he was given a degrading job serving meals in the mess hall of a party school in Hopeh, close to where he had once led triumphant Red forces against the Nationalists in 1947.

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Very few eminent Communists come from Hopeh or its neighboring province of Shansi, which is noted for sacred mountains and such spectacular cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist images.

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Most typical of the northern provinces is perhaps Hopeh, which contains the capital city of Peking.

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Ancient Yungnien, 200 miles south of Peiping in Hopeh Province, had weathered 13 centuries of Mongol, Tartar and Manchu invasion before it began crumbling under the rain of friendly bread.

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