Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Fengxian.
Today there are tens of thousands of such ‘schools’ dotted all over China; the one we visited was in Fenghsien county near Shanghai.
1976, Christopher Collingwood, “Pages from a Chinese Diary”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XV, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 22 more examples
Twenty miles south of Shanghai, near the edge of the growing Yangtse delta, lies the crowded county of Fenghsien. On one side is the ocean, from which the land has persistently been snatched. On the other is the exotic metropolis of Shanghai [1], singularly out of harmony with this ancient agricultural countryside.
1974, George B. Cressey, “Population and agriculture in the Yangtse delta”, in D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 71Tensions between suburban residents of different class backgrounds were exacerbated by the increasing diversity of economic life of Shanghai’s outskirts. Even before the Socialist Education Movement, farmers in Fenghsien county had complained because they were ineligible to use the recreation clubs and swimming pools set up by unions of industrial workers who lived there.
1981, Lynn T. White III, “Shanghai-suburb relations, 1949-1966”, in Christopher Howe, editor, Shanghai: Revolution and Development in an Asian Metropolis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 265–266
Origin
From Mandarin 奉賢／奉贤 (Fèngxián) Wade–Giles romanization: Fêng⁴-hsien².
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