Hongqiao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 紅橋／红桥 (Hóngqiáo).

Hongqiao

1. A district of Tianjin, China.
   • [1969, “Chronicle”, in Chinese Literature‎, number 1, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:

     Not long ago an exhibition of class education was inaugurated at the “Three Stones” Historical Museum in Hungchiao District, Tientsin.]

   • 2001 January 3, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Tianjin Journal; For a Fee, This Chinese Firm Will Beg Pardon for Anyone”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 March 2021‎:

     Against that backdrop, Mr. Liu, a former lawyer with a long interest in psychology, decided that the people of Tianjin needed some help apologizing, "as a way of relieving pressure, reducing barriers and the many negative feelings between people today."
     In fact, the apology company is an arm of a psychological stress reduction center that he also runs in some low concrete buildings that belong to the Hongqiao district government, his partner in what he hopes will be a profitable venture.
     "Our society is changing very fast and competition is very harsh, so everyone now feels pressure in his heart," Mr. Liu said, sitting under a trellis bearing plastic fruit that covers the ceiling of the center's group counseling room.