Yangjingbang

Yang·jing·bang
Y4A1N1G2J8I1N1G2B3A1N1G2

proper noun

A former tributary of the Huangpu, Shanghai, China.

Scrabble 27

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Yang-king-pang

  1. historicalA former tributary of the Huangpu, Shanghai, China.

    Some of the famous inns like the Taian Inn and the Qianyi Inn located in the Jiaji Long (lane) to the north of Yangjingbang (the present Yanan Road, East) started their business in a lane.

    1985, Jia You, “GENERAL ASPECTS OF STREET-LANES IN SHANGHAI”, in Min Dayong, transl., Anecdotes of Old Shanghai, 1st edition, Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, →OCLC, page 137
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    The French Concession lay between the walled Chinese city and Yang-ching-pang Creek, later filled in and called Edward VII Avenue. The British Settlement stretched from Yang-ching-pang to Soochow Creek while the American settlement consisted of a piece of land fronting the river to the north-east of Soochow Creek.

    [1990, Harriet Sergeant, “A Simple Equation – The Rise of a Great City”, in Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18

    Rows of simply constructed, single-story wooden houses appeared literally overnight along the Bund, in the northwest part of the British Settlement, as well as on the banks of Yangjingbang, the creek that separated the British and French settlements.

    1999, Hanchao Lu, “Going to Shanghai”, in Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century, University of California Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33

    By 1848 this boundary had been pushed westwards to today’s Central Tibet Road (formerly known as Defence Creek) and bounded by Suzhou Creek to the north and by the Yangkingpang Creek (today’s East Yan’an Road) to the south. The British were adamant about keeping their +70-acre area free of Chinese residents.

    [2013, Paul Mooney, Peter Hibbard, “Getting Around Shanghai”, in Beijing & Shanghai: China's Hottest Cities, Odyssey Books & Maps, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338

Origin

  1. Mandarin洋涇浜 /洋泾浜
  2. EnglishYangjingbang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜 (Yángjīngbāng).

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Translations

Chinese Cantonese 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜
  • 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜 (joeng⁴ ging¹ bong¹)tributary
Chinese Mandarin 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜
  • 洋涇浜 /洋泾浜 (Yángjīngbāng)tributary
French Yangjingbang
  • Yangjingbangtributary
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