Citations:Changchun

English citations of Changchun

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• 1911 August, “The Silver Lining of a Dark Cloud”, in The Missionary Herald‎^[1], volume CVII, number 8, →OCLC, page 359, column 2:

  Dr. Young in a very modest letter says, "The praise for the successful issue of the campaign against the plague lies with the Chinese rather than with the foreigners, for it was the former who did most of the work, and, so far as Changchun was concerned, practically all the planning." He says that during the time of danger and strain the conduct of the Chinese was certainly praiseworthy, and that so far as the Changchun officials were concerned they went into danger wherever it was necessary in discharge of duty.

• 1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “China-Manchuria”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports‎^[2], number 52h, Harbin, page 3:

  It costs but from $0.86 to $1.14 per ton to load Japanese coal into the cars at the mines, and as these are under the control of the South Manchuria Railway it is said that coal is freighted to Changchun free.

• 1979 April 8, “Wallposter in Kirin”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XX, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  A “big-character” wall appearing in Changchun, Kirin Province, on Feb. 2, denounced the Chinese Communist regime’s crackdown on dissidents clamoring for human rights, an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said April 3.
  The wall poster accused the Peiping regime [of] "practicing Fascist totalitarianism," the report said, adding that some 40 people in Changchun had been arrested for putting up wall posters.

• 2001, Gordon G. Chang, “Lake of Gasoline: The Discontent of the People Is Explosive”, in The Coming Collapse of China‎^[4] (Business/Current Affairs), New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 23:

  Master Li has mixed a powerful brew since he first started the Falun Gong in 1992 in Changchun, a grimy provincial capital northeast of Beijing.

• 2016 [2012], Homare Endo, “The Red Glass Bead”, in Michael Brase, transl., Chazu: Chugoku kenkoku no zanka [Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China's Wartime Atrocity]‎^[5] (Biography & Memoir), Berkeley, Cali.: Stone Bridge Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 66:

  A woman staying with us came down with cholera. This person had evacuated with her family from Haerbin, which was under Communist control, thinking that it would be easier to repatriate from Changchun than northern Haerbin.

• 2022 March 11, “China locks down city of 9 million amid new spike in cases”, in AP News‎^[6], archived from the original on 13 March 2022‎^[7]:

  China on Friday ordered a lockdown of the 9 million residents of the northeastern city of Changchun amid a new spike in COVID-19 cases in the area attributed to the highly contagious omicron variant.

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• [1741, Uncredited translator, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary by Jean-Baptiste du Halde, London: Edward Cave, page 235,^[8]

  Before we left the Emperor's Preſence, he told us that he would go next Morning to his Pleaſure-houſe of Chang chun ywen, two Leagues and a half to the Weſt of Pe-king, and order us to come to him there every ſecond Day, to continue our Expoſition of the Elements and Geometry.[...]
  The 28th the Emperor went in the Morning to his Pleaſure-houſe, called Chang chun ywen, which ſignifies The Garden of perpetual Spring.]