T'uan-feng

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English

Map including T'UAN-FENG (TWANFENG) (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

From Mandarin 團風团风 (Tuánfēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tʻuan²-fêng¹.

Proper noun

T'uan-feng

  1. Alternative form of Tuanfeng
    • 1970, Philip A. Kuhn, Rebellion and Its Enemies in Late Imperial China, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
      In the major sub-district administrative centers (chen) such as T'uan-feng, Yang-lo and Ts'ang-fu (which were also key economic centers) the Taipings stationed local officials and ordered that tax registers be compiled.
    • 1977, Translations on People's Republic of China, →OCLC:
      Hothouse hydroponic cultivation of early rice seedling was a creation of the poor and lower-middle peasants of the agricultural scientific institute of the Hua-yuan fourth brigade, T'uan-feng commune, Huang-kang county, after undergoing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and in the process of their production practice.
    • 1992 [c. 1600], Yüan Hung-tao, translated by Jonathan Chaves, Pilgrim of the Clouds, Weatherhill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90:
      My friend Ch'iu Chang-ju of Ma-ch'eng traveled east to the Wu area, and then traveled back to T'uan-feng with thirty jars of water from Hui Mountain Stream.

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