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.

   • 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