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Fengjie
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English
Fengjie County
Alternative forms
en Fengkieh Postal
en Fengchieh Feng-chieh Fêng-chieh Wade-Giles
Etymology
From the en cmn-pinyin -en 1998 Blunden Caroline w:Mark Elvin Gazetteer Graham Speake Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File Checkmark Books 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 9770589M 232, 233 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/233/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Fengjie/Feng-chiFeng-chieh 31°06′N 109°30′E, romanization of the en cmn 奉節.
Pronunciation
fŭng′jyĕ′Fengkieh or Feng-chieh 609 2 Until 1913 called Kweichow.
en Feng jie
Proper noun
en county city/Chongqing c/China.
en November 19, 2007 w:Jim Yardley; Zhang Jing Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs https://web.archive.org/web/20090310032654/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/world/asia/19dam.html?pagewanted=5 10 March 2009 Asia Pacific 5 For many farmers, the immediate concern is the land beneath their feet. Landslides are striking different hillsides as the rising water places more pressure on the shoreline, local officials say. In Fengjie County, officials have designated more than 800 disaster-prone areas. Since 2004, landslides have forced the relocation of more than 13,000 people in the county.
en 2013 David G. Kohl The Best of Times - 1928-1937 Lutherans On The Yangtze https://archive.org/details/lutheransonyangt0001kohl/ I Portland, Oregon One Spirit Press 978-1-893075-42-9 2013944055 864592751 105 https://archive.org/details/lutheransonyangt0001kohl/page/105/ 2 No more missionaries were stationed in Kweifu, renamed Fengkieh [Fengjie], but missionary concern, connection, and conversions continued for years. on
Translations
county in western China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 奉節
Mandarin: cmn 奉節 Fèngjié
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 2008 Fengjie Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 1215 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/1215/ 2
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