Xinyizhou

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新義州／新义州 (Xīnyìzhōu).

Proper noun

Xinyizhou

1. Synonym of Sinuiju: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • 1985 July 12 [1985 May 8], “Kim Il-song, Hu Yaobang Meeting Reported”, in Korean Affairs Report‎^[1], number 85-048, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 46:

     Comprehensive top-level leadership talks in Simuiju^{[sic – meaning Sinuiju]} [Xinyizhou] between Communist China and North Korea, which came about with the unofficial visit of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang, are becoming the object of considerable interest, as international interest in the Korean peninsula is higher now than at any time in the past.

   • 1995, Philip Waller, John Rowell, “Chronology”, in Chronology of the 20th Century‎^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 18, column 1:

     May
     1 Japanese army (which had landed in Korea in March), attacks and defeats Russian army at Xinyizhou.

   • 2005, Harold Μ. Tanner, “Guerrilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947”, in Warfare in China Since 1600‎^[3], 1st edition, Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 1190:

     His troops had no identification of any sort, and the Soviet garrison commander in Xinyizhou (located in North Korea, across the river from Andong) could not be confident that this band of armed men was not a force of bandits or a stray unit of the former Manchukuo puppet army.

   • 2008, Chu Shulong, Lin Xinzhu, “The Six Party Talks: A Chinese Perspective”, in Asian Perspective‎^[4], volume 32, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     […] in southern China; and North Korea has set up its own "special zones" in the Jingang Mountain area bordering South Korea, and in the Xinyizhou […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Xinyizhou.