Feng-chieh

English

Map including Feng-chieh (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 奉節／奉节 (Fèngjié), Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-chieh².

Proper noun

Feng-chieh

1. Alternative form of Fengjie
   • [1882 November 29, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes.”, in North-China Herald‎^[1], volume XXIX, number 805, →OCLC, page 590:

     The crops in the Fêng-chieh and Wushan Dirtricts^{[sic – meaning Districts]} also suffered greatly from wind and hail combined.]

   • 1967, Dennis J. Doolin, Charles P. Ridley, THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS‎^[2], Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, →OCLC, page 476:

     Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.

   • 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[3], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 413:

     "The cord-marked li tripods extended westward no further than Wan Hsien, and the gray li tripods did not even reach Feng-chieh."

   • 1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei‎^[4], New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     For Yen Hsüeh-mei was to take a steamboat downstream to Feng-chieh, where Tseng Shao-hua would meet her and escort her overland to Lao-ho-k'ou.

   • 1988 [1981], Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China‎^[5], Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

     When we arrived in Wu-shan, we happened upon an old wooden boat which carried cotton to Feng-chieh, so we took that.

Translations

Fengjie — see Fengjie

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fengkieh or Feng-chieh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 609, column 2