Laifeng

See also: Lai-feng

English

Alternative forms

• Lai-feng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 來鳳 / 来凤 (Láifèng).

Proper noun

Laifeng

1. A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
   • 1942, “REV. HERBERT MEYER, CHINESE MISSIONARY, ASSUMES DUTIES OF PASTOR OF LUTHERAN CHURCH”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier‎^[1], Petaluma, California, page 2:

     The ruthless and indiscriminate bombings of the defenseless cities in southwest Hupeh has called for extra efforts in the way of extending relief. For a time Rev. Meyer operated a relief camp for some 60 refugee children. After the bombing of Enshih and Laifeng in Hupeh and Wkeifu in Szechaun ^{[sic – meaning Szechuan]} relief was extended to thousands of destitute Chinese with monies received from the American relief fund for China.

   • 1976 October 18 [1976 October 17], “Rural Hupeh Scores Revisionists, Splittists”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 202, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page H 4:

     (Peng Chao-feng), a delegate to the Fourth NPC, a Tuchia peasant of (Hotsung) brigade of (Laotung) commune in Laifeng County, said: "The two important central decisions completely reflect the desires of the people of the minority nationalities, in resolute response to the call of the party Central Committee we Tuchia and Miao people will unite most closely around the party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, obey the commands of the Central Committee in all actions, persist in taking the class struggle as the key link, in the party's basic line and in continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, struggle against revisionism, the bourgeoisie in the party and all incorrect lines which run counter to Mao Tsetung Thought and advance forever and victoriously along Chairman Mao's revolutionary line."

   • 2000, Matthew H. Sommer, “Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives”, in Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China‎^[2], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187:

     In a 1739 case from Laifeng County, Hubei, the widow Zhang Shi (forty-five sui) was killed by her new second husband, Jiang Changyi (forty-three sui), when she refused to consummate her marriage with him.

   • 2014 July 23, Alexa Olesen, “The New Website That Has China Buzzing”, in Foreign Policy‎^[3], archived from the original on 17 December 2014:

     The Paper appeared to be testing that proposition with a daring expose about health problems at a mercury mine in the poor mountainous Guizhou province. Another looked at excessive spending on a construction project in poverty-stricken Laifeng county in central Hubei province.

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

Translations

county in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 來鳳 / 来凤 (zh) (Láifèng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Laifeng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1009, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Laifeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1666, column 1

Anagrams

• faeling, fealing, finagle, fleaing, leafing