Houguan county

Fujian Province

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

  • Chen Menglei, Qing dynasty scholar and author
  • Lin Xu, politician executed by the Qing dynasty during Empress Cixi's reign

References

  1. ^ Practicing Kinship: Lineage and Descent in Late Imperial China, p.241

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