Hai-feng
English
editEtymology
editFrom Mandarin 海豐/海丰 (Hǎifēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-fêng¹.
Proper noun
editHai-feng
- Alternative form of Haifeng
- 1983, C. Martin Wilbur, “The Nationalist Revolution: from Canton to Nanking, 1923-28”, in John K. Fairbank, editor, The Cambridge History of China[1], volume 12, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 543–544:
- P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground.
- 1986, John King Fairbank, The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985[2], HarperPerennial, published 1987, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 230:
- The most intriguing pioneer in CCP peasant mobilization was P’eng P’ai, a May Fourth intellectual from Hai-feng county, on the seacoast halfway between Hong Kong and Swatow.
- 2001, Dian Murray, “The Practice of Homosexuality among the Pirates of Late Eigteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century China”, in C. R. Pennell, editor, Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader[3] (History), New York University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 250:
- On March 3, in the ocean off Hai-feng County, the pirates robbed a fishing junk, and captured Hsu-ch’iung whom crew member Ssu T’ien forced to commit sodomy. On March 11 in a bay in Hsin-an County, they robbed another t’o-feng vessel, captured and imprisoned Tan Se-chin and Tan Ya-pang and forced them to gather firewood.