Feng-t'ai

See also: Fengtai

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 豐臺／豐台／丰台 (Fēngtái) Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng¹-tʻai².

Proper noun

Feng-t'ai

1. Alternative form of Fengtai
   • 1966, Edmund S. Wehrle, Britain, China, and the Antimissionary Riots, 1891-1900‎^[2], Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164:

     However, on May 29, the situation again became ominous. The Boxers had burned to the ground certain railway stations —one of them at Feng-t’ai, six miles from Peking.

   • 1968, “PEKING (PEIPING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[3], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 533, column 1:

     Other industrial suburbs, southwest of the city, include Feng-t'ai, with railroad marshalling yards, bridge-construction, concrete railroad ties and asbestos-pipe factories, and Ch'ang-hsin-tien, with locomotive and rolling-stock shops.

   • 1970, L. K. Young, British Policy in China, 1895-1902‎^[4], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 196:

     On the same day MacDonald suggested to General Gaselee, who had by this time arrived to take over from General Dorward, that British forces should occupy a point on the Peking-Tientsin section of the line north of the stretch on which the Russians were already working. Gaselee acted promptly and the little station of Feng-t'ai was occupied on 30 August.

   • 1978, Hsia Chih-yen, translated by Liang-lao Dee, The Coldest Winter in Peking‎^[5], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:

     I have been in touch with Commander Chʻen and tonight a special military train will leave from Feng-tʻai, which will transport a troop division for guard duty at Paoting to ensure the security of the deliberations of the Central Commtitee^{[sic – meaning Committee]}.

Translations

Fengtai — see Fengtai

Anagrams

• fangite, feating