Fenxi
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汾西.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editFenxi
- A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
- 2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:
- My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.
- 2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister, editors, Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History[3], Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 245:
- Fenxi County, located in the north of Pingyang prefecture in the mountainous region to the west of the Fen River, suffered even greater losses from the famine. Fenxi was a poor county, indicated not least by the poor quality of its gazetteer.
- 2013 September 4, Gillian Wong, “China police say aunt likely gouged out boy’s eyes”, in AP News[4], archived from the original on 02 June 2022[5]:
- Police in the city of Linfen in northern Shanxi province have identified the boy’s aunt Zhang Huiying as a suspect because the boy’s blood was found on her clothes, the official Xinhua News Agency said. […]
One of the case investigators reached by phone, a police officer in Fenxi county surnamed Liu, referred only to the Xinhua report and refused to answer further questions, saying he was not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to the city and county’s police bureaus’ propaganda departments rang unanswered.
Translations
editReferences
edit- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Fensi or Fen-hsi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 610, column 1
Further reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fenxi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1216, column 2