Huguang

Proper noun

Huguang

1. (historical) A former province of China.
   • THis Province of Huquang, divided in the middle by the River Kiang, into a Northern and Southern part, is not inferior to the others in bigneſs ; for it begins in the South in twenty ſix Degrees and twenty Minutes Northern-Latitude, and ends in thirty four Degrees, a Tract of hundred thirty ſeven...[1671, Arnoldus Montanus, translated by John Ogilby, Atlas Chinensis, London: Tho. Johnson, translation of original in Dutch, →OCLC, page 517
   • In 1703, Kangxi made a significant concession to the military officials in Huguang province (which later became Hubei and Hunan provinces). He endorsed a proposal by the governor-general of the Huguang province that allowed officers a certain number of so-called qinding or suiding—both meaning...2009, Yingcong Dai, “Military Finance of the High Qing Period: An Overview”, in Nicola Di Cosmo, editor, Military Culture in Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University...