Fenghsien

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 奉賢／奉贤 (Fèngxián) Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-hsien².

Proper noun

Fenghsien

1. Alternative form of Fengxian
   • 1974, George B. Cressey, “Population and agriculture in the Yangtse delta”, in D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings‎^[1], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71:

     Twenty miles south of Shanghai, near the edge of the growing Yangtse delta, lies the crowded county of Fenghsien. On one side is the ocean, from which the land has persistently been snatched. On the other is the exotic metropolis of Shanghai [1], singularly out of harmony with this ancient agricultural countryside.

   • 1976, Christopher Collingwood, “Pages from a Chinese Diary”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[2], volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2:

     Today there are tens of thousands of such ‘schools’ dotted all over China; the one we visited was in Fenghsien county near Shanghai.

   • 1981, Lynn T. White III, “Shanghai-suburb relations, 1949-1966”, in Christopher Howe, editor, Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis‎^[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 265–266:

     Tensions between suburban residents of different class backgrounds were exacerbated by the increasing diversity of economic life of Shanghai’s outskirts. Even before the Socialist Education Movement, farmers in Fenghsien county had complained because they were ineligible to use the recreation clubs and swimming pools set up by unions of industrial workers who lived there.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fenghsien.