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Laifeng
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Lai-feng
English
Laifeng County
Alternative forms
en Lai-feng Wade-Giles
Etymology
From en cmn 來鳳.
Pronunciation
lī′fŭng′Laifeng 1009 1
en Lai feng
Proper noun
en county autonomous prefecture/Enshi p/Hubei c/China.
en http://www.newspapers.com/image/219146425/ 1942 REV. HERBERT MEYER, CHINESE MISSIONARY, ASSUMES DUTIES OF PASTOR OF LUTHERAN CHURCH w:Petaluma Argus-Courier Petaluma, California 2 The ruthless and indiscriminate bombings of the defenseless cities in southwest Hupeh has called for extra efforts in the way of extending relief. For a time Rev. Meyer operated a relief camp for some 60 refugee children. After the bombing of Enshih and Laifeng in Hupeh and Wkeifu in Szechaun Szechuan relief was extended to thousands of destitute Chinese with monies received from the American relief fund for China.
en 18 October 1976 17 October 1976 Rural Hupeh Scores Revisionists, Splittists Daily Report: People's Republic of China I 202 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578346&seq=87 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Wuhan Hupeh Provincial Service cmn 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: Central-South Region H 4 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578346&seq=144 (Peng Chao-feng), a delegate to the Fourth NPC, a Tuchia peasant of (Hotsung) brigade of (Laotung) commune in Laifeng County, said: "The two important central decisions completely reflect the desires of the people of the minority nationalities, in resolute response to the call of the party Central Committee we Tuchia and Miao people will unite most closely around the party Central Committee headed by Comrade Hua Kuo-feng, obey the commands of the Central Committee in all actions, persist in taking the class struggle as the key link, in the party's basic line and in continuing the revolution under the dictatorship of the proletariat, struggle against revisionism, the bourgeoisie in the party and all incorrect lines which run counter to Mao Tsetung Thought and advance forever and victoriously along Chairman Mao's revolutionary line."
en 2000 Matthew H. Sommer Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China https://archive.org/details/sexlawsocietyinl0000somm/ Stanford, Cali. w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-3695-2 99-41276 41967227 187 https://archive.org/details/sexlawsocietyinl0000somm/page/187/ In a 1739 case from Laifeng County, Hubei, the widow Zhang Shi (forty-five sui) was killed by her new second husband, Jiang Changyi (forty-three sui), when she refused to consummate her marriage with him.
en JULY 23, 2014 Alexa Olesen The New Website That Has China Buzzing https://web.archive.org/web/20141217085645/https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/07/23/the-new-website-that-has-china-buzzing/ 17 December 2014 w:Foreign Policy The Paper appeared to be testing that proposition with a daring expose about health problems at a mercury mine in the poor mountainous Guizhou province. Another looked at excessive spending on a construction project in poverty-stricken Laifeng county in central Hubei province.
en
Translations
county in central China
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 來鳳
Mandarin: cmn 來鳳 Láifèng
Japanese: ja
References
Further reading
en 1998 Laifeng 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 1666 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1666/ 1
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