Feng-t'ai

Proper noun

Fengtai

1. A rural settlement, later a town, to the southwest of Beijing city wall, in China.
   • Only Japan, since 1933, had exercised the right of stationing troops at most of the twelve places specified in Article IX. In addition, from the end of 1935 Japan arbitrarily assumed the right of stationing a military force at Tungchow, and from September 1936 at Fengtai. The maintenance of...1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 13
2. A district of Beijing, China, with the forementioned town inside as the namesake.
   • In fact, the existing admission procedures apply only to what are known as “intellectual youth”, that is to say secondary school graduates transferred to the country or a factory, and only students in large towns fall into this category. Fengtai, near Peking, has a population of 150,000 and is...1977, Marianne Bastid-Bruguière, “Higher Education in the People's Republic of China”, in Science and Technology in the People's Republic of China, Organization for Economic Co-operation and...