Weifang

• (from Wade–Giles) Wei-fang

From Mandarin 濰坊／潍坊 (Wéifāng).

• enPR: wāʹfängʹ

Weifang

1. A prefecture-level city in Shandong, in northeastern China
   • 1959, Ruth Nanda Anshen, The Family: Its Function and Destiny‎, Rev. edition, New York: Harper & Brothers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160:

     The haste with which marriages are contracted by young people who are experimenting for the first time with unobstructed choice of mates is typified by such a current remark as that which Tzu Chi reports from Weifang, Shantung: “First let’s go to the movies and then let’s get married.”

   • 2004, Ian Johnson, Wild Grass‎, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 282:

     Weifang officials knew the policy meant trouble for them. China has other concentrations of Falun Gong believers, such as in the northeast. But those areas are remote from the capital. Weifang is located just three hundred miles southeast of Beijing, making it easy for protesters to travel to the capital even after the city had taken the initial precaution of sending security agents to train and bus stations to head them off before they left town.

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