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Huguang

Huguang was a province of China under the Yuan and Ming dynasties, covering the middle Yangtze lands of present-day Hubei and Hunan and, under the Yuan, also Guangxi and Hainan. The Qing split it into Hubei and Hunan in the 17th century, but the two provinces continued to share a governor-general, the Viceroy of Huguang, until the end of the dynasty. Its rice surpluses made it one of China's main granaries.

Huguang
Image: Giacomo Cantelli (1643-1695), Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (1627-1691) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Huguang. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/huguang
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