Fenyang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 汾陽 / 汾阳 (Fényáng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: fǔnʹyängʹ

Proper noun

Fenyang

1. A county-level city in Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
   • 1945, Harrison Forman, Report from Red China‎^[2], New York: Book Find Club, →OCLC, →OL, page 229:

     The walled city of Fenyang, with a population of over 20,000, was a sizable objective. It was the most important Japanese base in this area outside of the provincial capital of Taiyuan itself, and a principal concentration point for the start of large-scale mopping-up operations.

   • 1977, Preston M. Torbert, The Chʻing Imperial Household Department: a Study of its Organization and Principal Functions, 1662-1796‎^[3], Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 159:

     Hsiung-lien had borrowed 550 taels from Chang Luan and left the original group of four in Fenyang, Shansi, to proceed to Peking to visit his aged mother.

   • 2015 December 23, Benjamin Dodman, “Film review: ‘Mountains May Depart’ probes China’s latest leap forward”, in France 24‎^[4], archived from the original on 23 December 2015:

     Charting modern China's breakneck pace is a staple of Jia Zhangke's cinema. In his latest film, the Fenyang-born director once again delves into the social and economic upheavals that have led his country to raise and flatten mountains – real or imaginary – as though they were toys.

   • 2016 May 26, Glenn Kenny, “Review: ‘Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,’ a Portrait of a Visionary Filmmaker”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2016, Movies‎^[6]:

     The Brazilian director Walter Salles, whose work has somewhat similar themes to Mr. Jia’s, has produced an admiring documentary portrait of the filmmaker, “Jia Zhangke, a Guy From Fenyang,” shot a few years back when Mr. Jia was preparing “A Touch of Sin” for release in China, which was subsequently denied. It begins with Mr. Jia revisiting his hometown, Fenyang, in the Shanxi province of northern China, and looking at the now-ruined locations of his early films.

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

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 汾陽 / 汾阳 (zh) (Fényáng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fenyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1216, columns 2, 3