Ch'ang-ch'un

From Mandarin 長春 (Chángchūn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-chʻun¹.^[1][2]

Ch'ang-ch'un

1. Alternative form of Changchun.
   • 1913, “Manchuria”, in The Coal Resources of the World‎^[2], 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.

   • 1960 August 16 [1959 December 6], Mu Ying-hua, “Rapid Growth of Ch'ang-Ch'un”, in Translations on Communist China's Physical and Economic Geography‎^[3], U. S. Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Ti-li Chih-shih (Geographic Knowledge), Peiping, No. 12, 6 December 1959, Pages 538-542 [《地理知识》], translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 8:

     Ch'ang-ch'un has become even more important ever since the building of the automobile plant in 1953-56 and the transfer of the provincial capitol here in 1954. At present, Ch'ang-ch'un is the political, economical, cultural, and transport center of Kirin Province, the first ranking important city in the central part of the northeast, and one of our country's modern, newly developed industrial cities.

   • 1964, Norton S. Ginsburg, “CH’ANG-CH’UN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[4], 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^[5], 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^[6], 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^[7], New York: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247:

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

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• “Ch'ang-ch'un” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.
• “Ch’ang-ch’un or Chang·chun”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎^[8], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145, column 2