Baofeng

• Pao-feng, Paofeng (Wade–Giles)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 寶豐 / 宝丰 (Bǎofēng).

• enPR: bouʹfǔngʹ^[1]

Baofeng

1. A county of Pingdingshan, Henan, China.
   • [1901, Marshall Broomhall, quoting C. Howard Bird, “My Escape from Siang-Ch’eng”, in Martyred Missionaries of the China Inland Mission‎^[2], →OCLC, →OL, page 244:

     News also had been received of a rising at Pao-feng, twenty-three miles west, where the people were mid to be looting the granaries of the wealthy.]

   • [1960, Mo Jo Ko, “Notes on the Ying Chien Hsien”, in Acta Archaeologica Sinica‎^[3], number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

     According to the annotations by Tu Yü (杜預), the state of Ying lay to the southwest of present-day Pao Fêng (寶豐) County in Central Honan.]

   • 1995 [1993], Maomao (Xiao Rong) Deng, Deng Xiaoping: My Father‎^[4], Basic Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 427:

     In late July Father set off from Baofeng County, Henan Province, where the Central Plains Field Army was stationed, to attend the meeting in Xibaipo in his capacity as first secretary of the Central Plains Bureau.

   • 2007 September 4, “Rescuers pull 12 bodies from China coal mine”, in Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 7 April 2023, Latest Crisis‎^[6]:

     The 12 were repairing a shaft at a colliery in Henan province's Baofeng county when an explosion tore through the pit on Friday.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Baofeng”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 308, column 2