Longling

English

Alternative forms

• Lung-ling (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍陵／龙陵 (Lónglíng).

Proper noun

Longling

1. A county of Baoshan, Yunnan, China.
   • [1981 August, Frank Don, “Earth Alert: Preparing for Earthquakes”, in Earth Changes Ahead‎^[1], New York: Destiny Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 141-142:

     Yet, the Chinese are credited with saving many lives by their accurate prediction of two other severe earthquakes with magnitudes registering 7.5 and 7.6 that struck Lungling County in western Yunnan Province on May 29, 1976.]

   • 2006, Christine E. Jackson, “The Green Peacock in the East”, in Peacock‎^[2], Reaktion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 132–134:

     Programmes of rearing captive peacocks are currently under way in Longling county in west Yunnan province, and other peacocks are being preserved in land set aside in forest near Qinghua in the Dali Bai autonomous prefecture and in the capital Kunming's zoological garden.

   • 2017 July 11, Lia Zhu, “Rare footage shows pain of 'comfort women'”, in China Daily‎^[3], archived from the original on 24 October 2017‎^[4]:

     "This footage tied in with wartime records. The area of Tengchong, Songshan and Longling in Yunnan province was an important fortress on the vital wartime supply line in China," said Qiu. Her book also records this history.
     According to the West Yunnan NGO Research Association for the Unresolved Issues of the Anti-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Longling County in 1942, and within two weeks set up a military comfort station there.

Translations

county in Yunnan

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 龍陵／龙陵 (zh) (Lónglíng)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Longling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1776, column 2