P'an-yü

See also: Panyu

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 番禺 (Pānyú) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻan¹-yü².

Proper noun

P'an-yü

1. Alternative form of Panyu
   • 1934 July, L. Carrington Goodrich, “The Posthumous Adventures of a Chinese Poet”, in The Open Court‎^[1], volume XLVIII, number 930, New Orient Society of America, page 129:

     An extended biography of Ch'ü is not called for here, as enough is given in the record. Briefly, he was born about 1629 in the district of P'an-yü, Kuangtung Province, and was a young student when the forces of the Ming collapsed and the Manchu braves and their Chinese and Mongol allies overran the country, occupying Peking in 1644 and Canton in 1650.

   • 1960, Kung-chuan Hsiao, “Ideological Control: The Hsiang-yüeh and Other Institutions”, in Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century‎^[2], University of Washington Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 194:

     The gentry of the thirteen rural areas of P'an-yü (Kwangtung) contributed funds and in 1777 built a kung-so (public meeting hall) in which a copy of the Sacred Edict was "reverentially kept" and where villagers old and young gathered to listen to the sermons.

   • 1966, Frederic Wakeman, Jr., Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861‎^[3], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 15:

     Looking away from the city, the British troops gazed northwards into the famous White Cloud Mountains (Pai-yün-shan), which divided Nanhai and P’an-yü counties.