Laifeng
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See also: Lai-feng
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Mandarin 來鳳／来凤 (Láifèng).
Proper noun
Laifeng
- A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
- 1942, “REV. HERBERT MEYER, CHINESE MISSIONARY, ASSUMES DUTIES OF PASTOR OF LUTHERAN CHURCH”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier, 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 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, 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, 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
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Laifeng”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1009, column 1
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Laifeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1666, column 1