Definition of "Hopeh"

As a top political officer in north China, Lo took an active part in a series of campaigns, mainly in Hopeh, from the fall of 1947 to January 1949.

1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Lo Jui-ch’ing”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965‎, volume II, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 643, column 1

Until 1958 Tientsin was an independent municipality administered directly by the government in Peking; at that time it became a part of the province of Hopeh and also the provincial capital.

1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 21, page 1140, column 1

We left Tachai in the morning to catch a train for Chengchow via Shih-chia-chuang, the capital of Hopeh Province.

1977, Yee Chiang, China Revisited‎, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, page 100