Hoifung

English Etymology From en yue 海豐. Pronunciation hoi′fo͝ong′Hoifung 793 1 Hoifung (hoi′fo͝ong′), Mandarin Haifeng (hī′fŭng′) Proper noun en Haifeng: the Cantonese-derived name. en 1895 E. J. Eitel Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882 https://archive.org/details/europeinchina0000unse/ London Luzac & Company 457555708 303 https://archive.org/details/europeinchina0000unse/page/302/mode/ The capture, by the Taipings, of the Hoifung and Lukfung district cities (in the N.E. of Hongkong) in September, 1854, seriously interfered, for a time, with the market supplies of the Colony. en https://archive.org/details/chinaproper0001grea/mode 1944 China Proper Volume I: Physical Geography, History and Peoples Naval Intelligence Division 896603403 149 https://archive.org/details/chinaproper0001grea/page/190/mode/ The railway from Canton to Kowloon reaches Tolo harbour in Mirs bay. The road from Waichow to Hoifung connects various centres some distance inland. It is of moderate quality and capable of carrying arms and transport to Pingshan, east of which it becomes very poor. There are branch roads from Hoifung to various centres in Honghai wan, and the road continues to Chaochow from Hoifung. en 1959 Walter Fairservis Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. The Origins of Oriental Civilization https://archive.org/details/originsoforienta0000unse/ https://archive.org/details/originsoforienta00fair The New American Library 59-8818 468788527 6271600M 137 https://archive.org/details/originsoforienta0000unse/page/137/ It will be noticed that in the chapters on China we have not described the situation as it is known in southern China, particularly around Hong Kong and Hoifung. The basic reason for this is that in general the affinities of the evidence from there are with Southeast Asia, though there are some suggestions of a limited contact with the North China Plain.[...]At Hoifung Father Raphael Maglioni made a number of discoveries of surface sites along the coast of the peninsula and inland from it from 1934 to 1940. References