Weifang
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Mandarin 濰坊／潍坊 (Wéifāng).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Weifang
- A prefecture-level city in Shandong, in northeastern China
- 1959, Ruth Nanda Anshen, The Family: Its Function and Destiny, Rev. edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:
- The haste with which marriages are contracted by young people who are experimenting for the first time with unobstructed choice of mates is typified by such a current remark as that which Tzu Chi reports from Weifang, Shantung: “First let’s go to the movies and then let’s get married.”
- 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 282:
- Weifang officials knew the policy meant trouble for them. China has other concentrations of Falun Gong believers, such as in the northeast. But those areas are remote from the capital. Weifang is located just three hundred miles southeast of Beijing, making it easy for protesters to travel to the capital even after the city had taken the initial precaution of sending security agents to train and bus stations to head them off before they left town.
- 2015 August 6, Neil Gough, Cao Li, “As China Reduces Local Spending, Cities Woo Private Investors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-08-09, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS:
- The wide new boulevards that cut across parts of Weifang in eastern China are largely free of traffic, a quiet reminder of the coastal city’s big ambitions.
Synonyms
Translations
a prefecture-level city in Shandong, northeastern China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Weifang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2071, column 3: “As ⊙ Weihsien co. (1946 pop. 647,086), city was called Weihsien until 1949, when it was set up as an independent municipality and re-named Weifang.”
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Weifang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3430, column 1
- Weifang, Wei-fang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.