Hsien-feng

English

Map including XIANFENG (HSIEN-FENG) (DMA, 1989)

Etymology

From Mandarin 咸豐 (Xiánfēng), Wade–Giles romanization: Hsien²-fêng¹.

Proper noun

Hsien-feng

1. Alternative form of Xianfeng
   • 1968, Jerome Alan Cohen, The Criminal Process in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1963: An Introduction‎^[1], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

     According to a Hupeh Daily report, T'ang Yu-lien, a nineteen-year-old peasant girl attached to production team No. 5 of Ch'ün-kuang production brigade of Shih-tzu-lu commune, Hsien-feng county, courageously exposed the theft of collective property by her uncle, T'ang Chiu-chiang, who was a deputy leader of the production team, and thereby protected the collective interests.

Translations

Xianfeng — see Xianfeng

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Sienfeng or Hsien-feng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1764, column 1