Haifeng

alternative Hai-feng

1. A county of Shanwei, Guangdong, China.

   Kwangtung produced her own fair share of militarists, including the first Kuomintang governor of the province, Ch’en Chiung-ming of Haifeng county, Wei Pang-p’ing, and Hsu Ch’ung-chih.

   1977, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., The Broken Wave: The Chinese Communist Peasant Movement, 1922-1928, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 115

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   On 2 January 1963, he secretly made his way to Haifeng County, Kwangtung, with a view to proceeding to Houmen and Swabue to carry out demolition activities. He was discovered by the local militiamen who reported him to the public security authorities, and was arrested.

   1963 January 14 [1963 January 12], “U.S.-Chiang Kai-shek Agents Sentenced”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 9, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Chicom International Affairs, page BBB 13

   The special group of Red Guards with strong group consciousness and collective grievances were offspring of regional cadres who were the subject of discrimination and suppression imposed by national leaders and their policy of breaking regionalism. Grievances of this kind have been strong in Kwangtung province. In Haifeng county, for example, the first group of Red Guards was composed of the children of cadres punished by the national leaders in past "anti-provincialism" campaigns. The children wanted revenge and their opponents were the children of northern or outside cadres.

   1976, Alan P. L. Liu, Political Culture & Group Conflict in Communist China, Clio Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68

   A court in southern China has handed out jail terms of up to 10 years to nine people from a Chinese fishing village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy after finding them guilty of illegal protests and other charges.[…] The Haifeng County court said in a statement late on Monday the nine had been jailed for crimes including illegal demonstrations, disturbing traffic and intentionally spreading false information.

   2016 December 26, Ben Blanchard, “China jails nine over protests in 'democracy' village”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2016, World

   Synonyms: Hoifung