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English
Etymology
From the Postal Romanization of Nanking court dialect Mandarin 濱江／滨江, from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.[1]
Proper noun
Pinkiang
- Synonym of Harbin; used especially during Japanese rule (1934–1945)
1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map : A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, page 229:Farther inland and adjoining these riverside districts is the new city of Harbin, which developed largely after the First World War. The population of the city increased eightfold from 40,500 in 1911 to 332,000 in 1931 and then doubled to 661,000 by 1940. The city was officially called Pinkiang under Manchukuo rule. Its present official Chinese name is Harbin, which is rendered phonetically by means of the characters Ha-erh-pin.
References
- ^ Kaske, Elisabeth (2008) The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →ISBN, page 52
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