Feng-chieh

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English

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Map including Feng-chieh (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

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From Mandarin 奉節奉节 (Fèngjié), Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-chieh².

Proper noun

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Feng-chieh

  1. Alternative form of Fengjie
    • [1882 November 29, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes.”, in North-China Herald[1], volume XXIX, number 805, →OCLC, page 590:
      The crops in the Fêng-chieh and Wushan Dirtricts[sic – meaning Districts] also suffered greatly from wind and hail combined.]
    • 1967, Dennis J. Doolin, Charles P. Ridley, THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS[2], Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, →OCLC, page 476:
      Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.
    • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China[3], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 413:
      "The cord-marked li tripods extended westward no further than Wan Hsien, and the gray li tripods did not even reach Feng-chieh."
    • 1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei[4], New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:
      For Yen Hsüeh-mei was to take a steamboat downstream to Feng-chieh, where Tseng Shao-hua would meet her and escort her overland to Lao-ho-k'ou.
    • 1988 [1981], Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China[5], Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:
      When we arrived in Wu-shan, we happened upon an old wooden boat which carried cotton to Feng-chieh, so we took that.

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