Kaifeng

alternative Kai-feng · alternative K'ai-feng · alternative K'ai-fêng · alternative obsolete Caifung · alternative obsolete Caifong · alternative obsolete Caifum · alternative obsolete Kae-fung · alternative obsolete Kae-fung Foo

1. A prefecture-level city on the Yellow River in Henan, China, a former national capital.

   It is learned that Feng Yu-hsiang has decided to abandon Kaifeng and Chengchow and withdraw his army to the west of Fulikwan and Heishihkwan.

   1929 June 1, “From the Chinese Press”, in The China Weekly Review, volume XLIX, number 1, →OCLC, page 32, column 1

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   For several weeks preceding the actual overflow of its banks the Hoang-Ho had been swollen from its tributaries. It had been unusually wet and stormy in northwest China, and all the small streams were full and overflowing. The first break occurred in the province of Honan, of which the capital is Kaifeng, and the city next in importance is Ching or Cheng Chou. The latter is forty miles west of Kaifeng and a short distance above a bend in the Hoang-Ho.

   1889, Willis Fletcher Johnson, chapter XXVIII, in History of the Johnstown Flood, Edgewood Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 322

   The supposed founder of the Chinese monarchy was Fu-hsi [about 2852 B.C.], and his capital was Kaifeng, now the provincial city of Honan. The early inhabitants of China are said to have lived in this Province.

   1897, P. N. Tsü, “Historical Description of China”, in The Geography of the Chinese Empire, Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC, page 9

   Chengchow is on the Pehan (Peking-Hankow) railway, about fifteen miles south of the Yellow river, and about forty-five miles west of Kaifeng. This railway is being rapidly pushed to completion. Another railway is to be built from Kaifeng to Honanfu, which will have its junction with the Pehan railway at this place.

   1905, “Foreign Mission Board Report”, in Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention 1905, number 60, Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall & Bruce Company, page 149

   Actual work has begun on the railway which is to link Kaifeng to the Tientsin-Pukow railway at Hsuchowfu and will bring Kaifeng within about two days of Shanghai, writes the Kaifeng correspondent of the C. C. Post on the 11th instant.

   1913 November, “Far Eastern Railways”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume X, number 6, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 234, column 3

   During the summer I attended as a speaker and teacher, a summer Conference north of the Yellow River, in which one of our brightest young Christians at Kaifeng felt the call to the ministry; he Is now studying for the ministry in Shantung University.

   1921 February 17, Hendon M. Harris, “Annual Report Country Work for Year 1920”, in The Baptist Record, volume XXIII, number 7, Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Baptist Convention, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3

   Synonyms: Bianjing, Bianliang