Houguan county
Appearance
Houguan County (Chinese: 侯官縣; pinyin: Hóuguān-xiàn) is a former county in Fujian Province, China that is now mostly part of Minhou County, Fuzhou.[1] Established during the Eastern Han dynasty, it was dissolved soon after the founding of the Republic of China in 1912.
People
[edit]- Chen Menglei, Qing dynasty scholar and author
- Lin Xu, politician executed by the Qing dynasty during Empress Cixi's reign
References
[edit]- ^ Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China, p.241