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Huangxing, Changsha

town in Hunan, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5926062 ↗
Source-derived summary

Huangxing Town (simplified Chinese: 黄兴镇; traditional Chinese: 黃興鎮; pinyin: Huángxīng Zhèn) is a town in Changsha County, Hunan province, China. It contains two communities and 11 villages. Ganshan township merged with Huangxing on November 19, 2015.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Huangxing, Changsha” as town in Hunan, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Huangxing, Changsha and town.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Huangxing, Changsha and town providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Huangxing, Changsha”, the useful work is to connect “town in Hunan, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5926062. Authority coordinates are 28.139, 113.106. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Huangxing, Changsha”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Huangxing, Changsha primary sources, Huangxing, Changsha archive and Huangxing research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Huangxing, Changsha”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Huangxing, Changsha” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.