Changlo

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A form of Changle — A district of Fuzhou, Fujian, China; a former county of Fujian, China.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Changle.

    MORE than forty years ago in the city of Changlo, Fukien Province, China, there lived a man and wife with a large family of children only one of whom was a son.

    1938, A. Katherine Zierdt, “How God Answered the Prayer of a Pagan”, in The Outlook of Missions, volume XXX, number 7, →OCLC, page 207
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    Ch’en Wei, the notorious bandit leader, used to capture people for ransom and massacre them in the Foochow-Fuching-Changlo border, causing great disturbance to the local community.[...]During the peasants’ revolt at Changlo, he stealthily returned from Shanghai to take command of his old bands and indulge in plundering.[...]On May 27, 1932, a junk, No. 84, was commandeered by the Commander of Navy at Pagoda Anchorage and sailed to Changlo for the transportation of Ch’en Wei’s troops to Pagoda Anchorage on the declaration that he should go with his troops to Amoy, together with Lin Ching’s troops to suppress communists.

    1932 June 3, acquaintance of Ralph Townsend, transl., Ways That Are Dark, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, published 1933, →OCLC, pages 200–201

    In my brief hours on Matsu I was asked about Dr. J. E. Skinner, for over fifty years active in a remarkable medical work; about the Congregational missionaries who had been stationed in Changlo, on the coast near Matsu.

    1955, John C. Caldwell, Still the Rice Grows Green, Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 55

    The source said that a secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's branch office in a production unit in Changlo County, Fukien Province, recently convened a meeting with the participation of other party cadres to raise funds for a smuggling operation. The secretary proposed raising the money to purchase smuggled items from Shanghai and re-sell them for a profit.

    1982 March 28, “Smuggling becomes serious”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3

Origin

From the Mandarin for 長樂/长乐 (Chánglè).

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