Feng-shan
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Etymology
From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 鳳山 (Fêng⁴-shan¹).
Proper noun
Feng-shan
- Alternative form of Fongshan
- [1875 May 1 [1875 April 3], “Peking Gazettes”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XIV, number 416, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 414, column 1:
- The Governor-General and Governor of Fuhkien memorialize on the appointment of a Magistrate for the district of Fêng-shan in Formosa. […] It is accordingly proposed that his late post at Fêng-shan be filled by the present Magistrate of the Wua-p’ing district, named Têng Kia-shêng, aged 43, a native of Nanking.]
- 1958, A. W. A. Brown, “The Spread of Insceticide Resistance in Pest Species”, in R. L. Metcalf, editor, Advances in Pest Control Research, volume II, Interscience Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 359:
- Cimex hemipterus. DDT resistance in this tropical bedbug appeared in 1952 at Feng-Shan, southern Taiwan, in barracks sprayed for two years (95).
- 1970, Leonard H. D. Gordon, editor, Taiwan : Studies in Chinese Local History, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:
- In June he filled the vacated post of the Taiwan brigade-general located in the Tainan prefectural center. Accordingly, he moved his headquarters from the district seat of Feng-shan to Tainan-fu.
- 1979, Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill, A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
- On the civilian side, the prefecture was divided into three districts (hsien), one centered at the prefectureal capital at Tainan, one in the south (Feng-shan), and one in the north (Chu-lo).
- 1999, John R. Shepard, “The Island Frontier of the Ch’ing, 1684-1780”, in Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 114:
- Over the next few days the rebels defeated government troops in several skirmishes and forced them to withdraw from Feng-shan and return to Tainan.
Translations
Fongshan — see Fongshan
Further reading
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