Hei-lung-chiang

See also: Heilungchiang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Hei¹-lung²-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Hei-lung-chiang

1. Alternative form of Heilongjiang
   • 1900, Alexander Hosie, Manchuria‎^[1], page 12:

     In the best caravans, that is those which go into the provinces of Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang and into Mongolia, a team usually consists of a pony in the shafts and six tracing mules three abreast.

   • 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia‎^[2], Macmillan and Co., page 23:

     Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^{[sic – meaning 哈爾濱]}) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.

   • 1980, C. K. Leung, Norton Ginsburg, editors, China: Urbanization and National Development‎^[3], page 269:

     From all reports, the increase in mechanization over the past three decades has been impressive, although much of the evidence comes form communes and production brigades which have had "model" or "demonstration" status, and from the state farms in frontier areas such as Hei-lung-chiang, which were pioneered by Japanese soldier-settlers during the Manchuko period in an attempt to establish a soldier-yeomanry that would provide protection against Russian threats to northern Manchuria.

   • 1981, Hualing Nieh, editor, Literature of the Hundred Flowers‎^[4], volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page xxxix:

     Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.

   • 1984, Ki-baik Lee, translated by Edward Willett Wagner, A New History of Korea‎^[5], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89–90:

     The capital of Parhae, called Sanggyŏng or "High Capital" was located at modern Tung-ching-ch'eng in Hei-lung-chiang province, Manchuria, and there were four secondary capitals- the "Central Capital" at modern Tun-hua in Chi-lin province, Manchuria, "Eastern Capital" at Hun-ch'un in Chi-lin, "Southern Capital" at Hamhŭng in South Hamgyŏng province, Korea, and "Western Capital" at Lin-chiang in Chi-lin [see map p. 70].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hei-lung-chiang.

Translations

Heilongjiang — see Heilongjiang

Further reading

• “Hei-lung-chiang” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.