Laifeng

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From Mandarin 來鳳来凤 (Láifèng).

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Laifeng

  1. A county of Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China.
    • 1942, “REV. HERBERT MEYER, CHINESE MISSIONARY, ASSUMES DUTIES OF PASTOR OF LUTHERAN CHURCH”, in Petaluma Argus-Courier[1], Petaluma, California, page 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 [sic – meaning Szechuan] relief was extended to thousands of destitute Chinese with monies received from the American relief fund for China.
    • 2000, Matthew H. Sommer, “Widows in the Qing Chastity Cult: The Nexus of Sex and Property in Law and in Women's Lives”, in Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China[2], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.
    • 2014 July 23, Alexa Olesen, “The New Website That Has China Buzzing”, in Foreign Policy[3], archived from the original on 17 December 2014:
      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.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Laifeng.

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