Yen-Pien

See also: Yenpien and Yen-pien

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 延邊／延边 (Yánbiān) Wade–Giles romanization: Yen²-Pien¹.

Proper noun

Yen-Pien

1. Alternative form of Yanbian
   • 1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?‎^[1], 2nd edition, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., published 1968, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 84:

     Several autonomous areas were established for the scattered groups of Mongols that remained, while some half-million culturally-tenacious Koreans, along the eastern border of Kirin, formed the Yen-Pien Autonomous District.

   • 1980, TvK, “China's Forty Millions”, in Georgina Ashworth, editor, World Minorities in the Eighties‎^[2], volume 3, Sunbury, Middlesex: Quartermaine House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

     The third area of national minority concentration is in the North East, formerly Manchuria (earlier seat of imperial power), a pocket between Mongolia, the Soviet Union and Korea, now divided into the provinces of Kirin, Heilungkiang and Liaoning. The Yen-Pien autonomous district accommodates 1.1 million, but minorities today represent only 6% of the local population.

   • 1994 June, Bong Ryol (김봉렬) Kim, “중국(中國) 연변지구(延邊地區) 조선족(朝鮮族)의 마을과 주거 [The Outline of Villages and Dwellings of the Korean Immigrants in Yen-Pien Area of China]”, in 건축역사연구 [geonchugyeoksayeon'gu, Journal of architectural history]‎^[3], volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 82:

     Now, modern dwellings of Korean immigrants are changing their spatial compositions, materials, and structures. With cultural assimilation as well as modernization, especially in urban areas, they area compelled to accept the elements of Chinese dwellings. But the spatial element of "Chong-ju-k'an", which is the core element of Yen-Pien dwelling type, never fade away nor is changed.

Translations

Yanbian — see Yanbian