Fengdu

• (from Wade–Giles) Feng-tu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 豐都／丰都 (Fēngdū).

Fengdu

1. A county of Chongqing, China.
   • [1925 January, A. C. Hyde Lay., “Die Lorelei in China.”, in Blackwood's Magazine‎, volume CCXVII, number MCCCXI, New York: Leonard Scott Publication Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95:

     The last stretch, from K'uei Fu to Chungking, is soothing to the eye after the harsh vistas of the Gorges. […]
     Fengtu, a celebrated town, which owes all its fame to being situated at the foot of the Sacred Mountain of the Son of Heaven, is the residence of the Emperor of the Dead. Just as the Emperor of the Living resided at Peking, the Emperor of the Dead has some occult existence here. When any Taoist believer dies, a priest writes a despatch to the Imperial Headquarters at Fengtu, and the communication is solemnly burnt, this being the convenient means of transit.]

   • 1998 [1997], Hong Ying, Howard Goldblatt, transl., Daughter of the River‎, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166:

     My great aunt was the first to starve in the village; my cousin rushed home from the mining school where he was a student to carry out his duties as eldest son. On his way there, he passed through Fengdu County, and saw the famine's great toll on the populace.

   • 2007 November 19, Yardley, Jim, “Chinese Dam Projects Criticized for Their Human Costs”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 March 2009, Asia Pacific, page 2‎:

     He said an algal bloom from too many nutrients earlier this year on a tributary had contaminated drinking water for 50,000 people in Fengdu County.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fengdu”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1215, column 2