Ch'ang-ch'un

See also: Changchun, Chángchūn, and chángchūn

English

Map including CH'ANG-CH'UN (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 長春 / 长春 (Chángchūn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-chʻun¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: chängʹcho͞onʹ

Proper noun

Ch'ang-ch'un

1. Alternative form of Changchun
   • 1913, “Manchuria”, in The Coal Resources of the World‎^[1], volume 1, Morang & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 267:

     The Pan-la-mên coal-field is situated about 16 km. south of Ssŭ-pʻing-chieh station on the railway between Chʻang-tʻu and Chʻang-chʻun.

   • 1964, Norton S. Ginsburg, “CH’ANG-CH’UN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 5, →OCLC, page 267, column 2:

     The city began as a local trading centre for north Chinese settlers at the end of the 18th century. It expanded rapidly and from 1905 to 1935 was a major junction and transshipment point between the Russian-owned broad-gauge Chinese Eastern railway and the Japanese-owned standard-gague South Manchurian railway. Ch’ang-ch’un was equipped with sizable railroad shops and also became the junction for railways extending westward into Inner Mongolia and eastward into northern Korea.

   • 1992, Lu Lan, “Sorrows of a Factory Worker”, in Li Yu-ning, editor, Chinese Women Through Chinese Eyes‎^[3], M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 228:

     In 1957, P'u-yi consented to her request for a divorce, and a year or so later she married a radio broadcasting technician. She gave birth to a son in 1962. At present she lives in Ch'ang-ch'un.

   • 1994, Tony Scotland, The Empty Throne: The Quest for an Imperial Heir in the People's Republic of China‎^[4], Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 103:

     But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945.

   • 2012, A. A. Evans, David Gibbons, The Illustrated Timeline of World War II‎^[5], New York: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247:

     Aug 21, 1945 Russians take Ch'ang-ch'un

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ch'ang-ch'un.

Translations

Changchun — see Changchun

Further reading

• “Ch'ang-ch'un” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• “Ch’ang-ch’un or Chang·chun”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎^[6], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145, column 2