P'an-yü

Panyu English Etymology From en cmn 番禺 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pʻan¹-yü². Proper noun 1 1 en Panyu. en 1934 July w:L. Carrington Goodrich The Posthumous Adventures of a Chinese Poet The Open Court https://archive.org/details/opencourt_july1934caru/ New Orient Society of America XLVIII 930 129 https://archive.org/details/opencourt_july1934caru/page/129/ An extended biography of Ch'ü is not called for here, as enough is given in the record. Briefly, he was born about 1629 in the district of P'an-yü, Kuangtung Province, and was a young student when the forces of the Ming collapsed and the Manchu braves and their Chinese and Mongol allies overran the country, occupying Peking in 1644 and Canton in 1650. en 1960 Kung-chuan Hsiao Ideological Control: The Hsiang-yüeh and Other Institutions Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century https://archive.org/details/ruralchinaimperi0000hsia/ w:University of Washington Press 1967 60-15803 797696103 19475457M 194 https://archive.org/details/ruralchinaimperi0000hsia/page/194/ The gentry of the thirteen rural areas of P'an-yü (Kwangtung) contributed funds and in 1777 built a kung-so (public meeting hall) in which a copy of the Sacred Edict was "reverentially kept" and where villagers old and young gathered to listen to the sermons. en 1966 w:Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Strangers at the Gate: Social Disorder in South China, 1839-1861 https://archive.org/details/strangersatgates00wake/ w:University of California Press 66-25349 185512285 20172745M 15 https://archive.org/details/strangersatgates00wake/page/15/ Looking away from the city, the British troops gazed northwards into the famous White Cloud Mountains (Pai-yün-shan), which divided Nanhai and P’an-yü counties.