Fenghsien

English Etymology From en cmn - 奉賢 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Fêng⁴-hsien². Proper noun en Fengxian. en 1974 w:George B. Cressey D. J. Dwyer Population and agriculture in the Yangtse delta China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/ w:Longman 0-582-48076-0 73-87225 963067253 5438328M 71 https://archive.org/details/chinanowintroduc0000dwye/page/71/ Twenty miles south of Shanghai, near the edge of the growing Yangtse delta, lies the crowded county of Fenghsien. On one side is the ocean, from which the land has persistently been snatched. On the other is the exotic metropolis of Shanghai [1], singularly out of harmony with this ancient agricultural countryside. en 1976 Christopher Collingwood Pages from a Chinese Diary Eastern Horizon https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1976_15_2/ XV 2 Hong Kong Eastern Horizon Press 0012-8813 751117974 38 https://archive.org/details/sim_eastern-horizon_1976_15_2/page/38/ 2 Today there are tens of thousands of such ‘schools’ dotted all over China; the one we visited was in Fenghsien county near Shanghai. en 1981 Lynn T. White III Shanghai-suburb relations, 1949-1966 Christopher Howe Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis https://archive.org/details/shanghairevoluti0000unse/ w:Cambridge University Press 0521231981 79-41616 6015820 265–266 https://archive.org/details/shanghairevoluti0000unse/page/266/ Tensions between suburban residents of different class backgrounds were exacerbated by the increasing diversity of economic life of Shanghai’s outskirts. Even before the Socialist Education Movement, farmers in Fenghsien county had complained because they were ineligible to use the recreation clubs and swimming pools set up by unions of industrial workers who lived there. en