Yenpien

See also: Yen-pien and Yen-Pien

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 延邊／延边 (Yánbiān) Wade-Giles romanization: Yen²-pien¹.

Proper noun

Yenpien

1. Alternative form of Yanbian, Jilin.
   • 1969, Current Background‎^[1], numbers 869-898, United States Consulate General (Hong Kong, China), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10:

     The poor and lower-middle peasants of the Fangch'uan Production Brigade of the Chinghsin People's Commune in Hunch'un hsien, Yenpien Korean Autonomous Chou, which borders the Soviet Union, joined frontier guards stationed there in holding a rally to denounce the crimes of the Soviet revisionists.

   • 1972 July 27 [1972 July 27], “All Nationalities Help Each Other in Kirin Chou”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[2], volume I, number 146, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA International Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page G 3‎^[3]:

     People in multi-national Hunchun County in Northeast China's Yenpien Korean Autonomous Chou (Kirin Province) have made rapid progress in the revolution and production by closing their ranks under the guidance of the Chinese Communist Party's policy towards nationalities.

   • 1976, June Teufel Dreyer, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China‎^[4], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 187–188:

     The emphasis on learning from the advanced experience of the Han was transformed into a campaign whereby all nationalities learned from each other, complete with down-to-earth homilies. For examples, commune members in Yenpien were said to have noticed that the type of plow used by Han made deep furrows in the soil but damaged the ground, while the plow favored by Koreans made only a superficial cut in the earth and did no damage to the soil. Commune members reportedly talked over the problem and decided to combine the best features of the two. They eventually came up with a design that permitted deep plowing without damage to the soil, and they named it the “unity plow.”⁵⁹ The moral, though left unstated, was obvious: mutual cooperation had resulted in mutual benefit, and another difference among nationalities had disappeared.
     In Yenpien, also, the autonomous chou government instituted an annual "Publicize Nationalities Solidarity Month."

   • 1979, Meishi Tsai, Contemporary Chinese Novels and Short Stories, 1949-1974: An Annotated Bibliography‎^[5], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 20–21:

     h) "I-t'iao k'uan-k'o ti tao-lu" 一條寬濶的道路 (A broad road). In Yenpien, a border town of Kirin, a poor peasant's son is unable to attend school because of TB. Under the guidance of the local party organization, the frustrated young man takes part in production and organizes a technical training class. He becomes a model laborer as his physical condition improves.

   • 1995, K. Connie Kang, Home Was the Land of Morning Calm‎^[6], Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 32:

     The legacy of the Korean independence movement remains today: nearly two million ethnic Koreans live in China, half of them in the Yenpien Korean Autonomous District in southeast Manchuria.

Etymology 2

From Mandarin 鹽邊／盐边 (Yánbiān) Wade-Giles romanization: Yen²-pien¹.

Pronunciation

• enPR: yěnʹbyěnʹ

Proper noun

Yenpien

1. Alternative form of Yanbian, Sichuan.

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Yenpien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 2122, column 2