Fengtien

[ fuhng-tyen ]

noun

, Wade-Giles.

1. a former name of Shenyang.
2. former name of Liaoning.

Example Sentences

Military conquest of the three Manchurian provinces— Heilungkiang, Kirin, Fengtien—was almost complete.

From Time Magazine Archive

Upon timber being shipped from Fengtien and Antung to Peking, it has to pay duties at five different places, the total amount of which aggregates 20 per cent of its market value, while timber from America is taxed only ten per cent.

From Project Gutenberg

Of this we have an exceedingly interesting and conclusive illustration in the struggle still proceeding between the three Manchurian provinces, Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, to seize the lion's share of the virgin land of Eastern Inner Mongolia which has an "open frontier" of rolling prairies.

From Project Gutenberg

Upon timber being shipped from Fengtien and Antung to Peking, it has to pay duties at five different places, the total amount of which aggregates 20 per cent, of its market value, while timber from American is taxed only ten per cent.

From Project Gutenberg

Of this we have an exceedingly interesting and conclusive illustration in the struggle still proceeding between the three Manchurian provinces, Fengtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, to seize the lion's share of the virgin land of Eastern Inner Mongolia which has an "open frontier" of rolling prairies.

From Project Gutenberg