Lankao

Proper noun

Lankao

1. A county of Kaifeng, Henan, China.
   • IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6
   • He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He...1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in...