Definition of "Hsiangtan"

The interior of Mao Tse-tung’s house at Hsiangtan County in Hunan Province was damaged by a number of anti-Communist protestors on June 23, according to a news report reaching Taipei recently.

1979 September 9, “Mao's house damaged”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XX, number 35, Taipei, page 3, columns 3–4

Mao’s father decided to apprentice Mao to a rice shop in Hsiangtan with which he had some connection.

1980, Dick Wilson, “1893-1910 Child of the Snake”, in The People's Emperor, Mao: A Biography of Mao Tse-tung‎, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 14

After reclaiming our gear at the bottom of the mountain, we walked out to the highway and caught the next bus heading north. It was bound for Changsha, the capital of Hunan, but we weren’t going that far. Our destination was Hsiangtan, only eighty kilometers away.

2016, Bill Porter, “Revolutionaries [革命者]”, in South of the Yangtze: Travels Through the Heart of China‎, Counterpoint Press, page 41