Hun-ch'un

From Mandarin 琿春 / 珲春 (Húnchūn), Wade–Giles romanization: Hun²-chʻun¹.

Hun-ch'un

1. Alternative form of Hunchun
   • 1882, G. W. Keeton, “Regulations for Maritime and Overland Trade between Chinese and Korean Subjects, 1882”, in The Development of Extraterritoriality in China‎, volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., published 1928, →OCLC, page 341:

     Article V.—In consideration of the numerous difficulties arising from the authority exercised by local officials over the legal traffic at such places on the boundary as I-chou, Hui-ning, and Ch’ing-yuan, it has now been decided that the people on the frontier shall be free to go to and fro and trade as they please at Ts’e-men and I-chou on the two sides of the Ya-lu River, and at Hun-ch’un and Hui-ning on the two sides of the T’u-men River.

   • 1888, H. E. M. James, “Sansing to Ninguta and Hun-chʻun”, in The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria‎, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 346:

     Hun-chʻun is essentially a garrison town, though there are a few dealers in seaweed, toadstools, and medicinal roots, large quantities of which are sent to Ninguta and Kirin, and thence to all parts of China. There is also a considerable trade in deer-horns.

   • 1904, B. L. Putnam Weale, “Prologue to the Crisis”, in Manchu and Muscovite‎, Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 52:

     In this fashion China completely lost access to the Sea of Japan, and surrendered what is to-day the important province of the Primorsk to the northern power. The nearest point on Chinese territory to the coast in this extreme east is Chinese Hun-ch’un, which stands some thirty miles inland from Passiet Bay.

   • 1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Recruitment of Urban Youths and Contributions to Rural Development”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China‎, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 213:

     The first is that of a young woman from Shanghai, Sung Ai-mei, who settled in a brigade in Hun-ch’un county, Kirin, in March 1969.

   • 1977, Martina Deuchler, “Korea Between China and Japan”, in Confucian Gentlemen and Barbarian Envoys: The Opening of Korea, 1875-1885‎, University of Washington Press, published 1983, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 142:

     Article 5 permitted Chinese and Koreans to trade at Ch’aengmun and Ŭiju on the Yalu River and at Hun-ch’un and Hoeryŏng on the Tumen River, the duties to be 5 percent ad valorem on all goods except red ginseng.

   • 1984, Ki-baik Lee, “The Fashioning of an Authoritarian Monarchy”, in Edward Willett Wagner, transl., A New History of Korea‎, 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].

   • 2008, Rodney P. Carlisle, Day by Day: The Twenties‎, volume 1, Facts on File, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 82:

     The armed Korean independence movement attacks Hun-ch'un, in eastern Manchuria, and kills Japanese consulate police.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hun-ch'un.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hunchun or Hun-ch’un”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 814, column 2

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