Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Changbai.
According to the report of the People's Government of North East China, at 15.07 Peking time on 13 October, two military airplanes of the United States aggression forces in Korea invaded China's air above Yenchiang village of Changpai county in Liaotung Province.
1950 October, Supplement to the Official Records of the Security Council, New York: United Nations, page 822 more examples
At 15:07 hours on October 13, two American planes circled and reconnoitered over Yenkiang village of Changpai County of Liaotung Province.[…] At 15:30 hours on November 3, four American planes strafed and dropped 22 bombs over Malukou village of Pataokou of Changpai County; 55 houses were destroyed with heavy losses to the residents’ property.
1954 [1950 December], “List of Border Violations by United States Planes”, in Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments [Activities of United States Citizens in Red China] (Hearings Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Eighty-Third Congress Second Session on Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments), number 23, Washington: Government Printing Office, sourced from China Monthly Review, →OCLC, pages 2013, 2014Under this powerful enemy pressure, our troops in southern Manchuria tightened up their position by temporarily drawing back to avoid his sharp thrust so that for a time we held only the counties of Linchiang, Mengchiang, Fusung and Changpai along the foothills of the Changpai Mountains.
1967 January, Li Tso-peng, “Three Campaigns to the South of the Sungari River”, in China Reconstructs, volume XVI, number 1, China Welfare Institute, page 11, column 3
Origin
- Mandarin長白 /长白
- EnglishChangpai
From Mandarin 長白 /长白 (Chángbái) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-pai².
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