Hai-feng

See also: hǎifēng and Haifeng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 海豐／海丰 (Hǎifēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-fêng¹.

Proper noun

Hai-feng

1. Alternative form of Haifeng
   • 1983, C. Martin Wilbur, “The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923-28”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China‎^[1], volume 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 543–544:

     P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground.

   • 1986, John King Fairbank, The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985‎^[2], HarperPerennial, published 1987, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230:

     The most intriguing pioneer in CCP peasant mobilization was P’eng P’ai, a May Fourth intellectual from Hai-feng county, on the seacoast halfway between Hong Kong and Swatow.

   • 2001, Dian Murray, “The Practice of Homosexuality among the Pirates of Late Eigteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China”, in C. R. Pennell, editor, Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader‎^[3] (History), New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250:

     On March 3, in the ocean off Hai-feng County, the pirates robbed a fishing junk, and captured Hsu-ch’iung whom crew member Ssu T’ien forced to commit sodomy. On March 11 in a bay in Hsin-an County, they robbed another t’o-feng vessel, captured and imprisoned Tan Se-chin and Tan Ya-pang and forced them to gather firewood.