Baofeng

See also: bàofēng

English

Alternative forms

• Pao-feng (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶豐／宝丰 (Bǎofēng).

Proper noun

Baofeng

1. A county of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
   • [1901, Marshall Broomhall, quoting C. Howard Bird, “My Escape from Siang-Ch’eng”, in Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission‎^[1], →OCLC, →OL, page 244:

     News also had been received of a rising at Pao-feng, twenty-three miles west, where the people were mid to be looting the granaries of the wealthy.]

   • [1960, Mo Jo Ko, “Notes on the Ying Chien Hsien”, in Acta Archaeologica Sinica‎^[2], number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

     According to the annotations by Tu Yü (杜預), the state of Ying lay to the southwest of present-day Pao Fêng (寶豐) County in Central Honan.]

   • [1977, Alexander B. Ikonnikov, “Production”, in The Coal Industry of China‎^[3], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 65:

     Even in October, at the conference on "Whole people take part in developing coal industry" convened in Paofeng County, Honan Province, a deputy minister, while sounding the pits' praises, spoke of the difficulties inherent in the running of pits, like vulnerability to flood-waters because of shallow working and complexity of arranging the drainage and winding systems when the working became deeper.]

   • 1995 [1993], Maomao (Xiao Rong) Deng, Deng Xiaoping: My Father‎^[4], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 427:

     In late July Father set off from Baofeng County, Henan Province, where the Central Plains Field Army was stationed, to attend the meeting in Xibaipo in his capacity as first secretary of the Central Plains Bureau.

   • 2007 September 4, “Rescuers pull 12 bodies from China coal mine”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-04-07, Latest Crisis‎^[6]:

     The 12 were repairing a shaft at a colliery in Henan province's Baofeng county when an explosion tore through the pit on Friday.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寶豐／宝丰 (zh) (Bǎofēng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baofeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 2