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Haifeng
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hǎifēng
English
Haifeng County
Alternative forms
en Hai-feng Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn - 海豐.
Pronunciation
hī′fŭng′Hoifung 793 1 Hoifung (hoi′fo͝ong′), Mandarin Haifeng (hī′fŭng′)
en Hai feng
Proper noun
en county prefecture-level city/Shanwei p/Guangdong c/China.
en 14 January 1963 12 January 1963 U.S.-Chiang Kai-shek Agents Sentenced Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts 9 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063984934&seq=3 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA zh 1541329 Chicom International Affairs BBB 13 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063984934&seq=97 On 2 January 1963, he secretly made his way to Haifeng County, Kwangtung, with a view to proceeding to Houmen and Swabue to carry out demolition activities. He was discovered by the local militiamen who reported him to the public security authorities, and was arrested.
en 1976 Alan P. L. Liu Political Culture & Group Conflict in Communist China https://archive.org/details/politicalculture0000liua/ Clio Books 0-87436-196-6 74-14195 2088912 68 https://archive.org/details/politicalculture0000liua/page/68/ The special group of Red Guards with strong group consciousness and collective grievances were offspring of regional cadres who were the subject of discrimination and suppression imposed by national leaders and their policy of breaking regionalism. Grievances of this kind have been strong in Kwangtung province. In Haifeng county, for example, the first group of Red Guards was composed of the children of cadres punished by the national leaders in past "anti-provincialism" campaigns. The children wanted revenge and their opponents were the children of northern or outside cadres.
en 1977 Roy Hofheinz, Jr. The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928 https://archive.org/details/brokenwavechines0000hofh/ Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England Harvard University Press 0-674-08391-1 76-56097 1010842319 7692121M 115 https://archive.org/details/brokenwavechines0000hofh/page/115/ https://books.google.com/books?id=dtFS_NmqOtAC Kwangtung produced her own fair share of militarists, including the first Kuomintang governor of the province, Ch’en Chiung-ming of Haifeng county, Wei Pang-p’ing, and Hsu Ch’ung-chih.
en December 26, 2016 Ben Blanchard China jails nine over protests in 'democracy' village Paul Tait w:Reuters https://web.archive.org/web/20161227101849/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-wukan-idUSKBN14G03U/ 27 December 2016 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-rights-wukan-idUSKBN14G03U/ World A court in southern China has handed out jail terms of up to 10 years to nine people from a Chinese fishing village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy after finding them guilty of illegal protests and other charges.The Haifeng County court said in a statement late on Monday the nine had been jailed for crimes including illegal demonstrations, disturbing traffic and intentionally spreading false information.
Synonyms
en Hoifung Postal Cantonese
Translations
county in Guangdong
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 海豐 hoi2 fung1
Mandarin: cmn 海豐 Hǎifēng
Manchu: mnc ᡥᠠᡳ ᡶᡠᠩ
References
Further reading
en 1998 Haifeng Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1214 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1214/ 1