Meanings
- Synonym of Panmunjom: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
In the past, Japan invaded our country, and now many Japanese still have contacts with us. We have negotiated with Americans in Banmendian [Korea] for two years and in Geneva one year. I believe that we will achieve our goal.
2007 [1956 August 21], Guangxiu Xu, quoting Mao Zedong, “Congressional China Policy and the Issue of Taiwan, 1953-1963”, in Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949-1979, University of Akron Press, sourced from 毛泽东外交文选 (Mao Zedong waijiao wenxuan, A Selection of Mao Zedong’s Diplomatic Writings) (Beijing: 中央文献出版社 (Zhongyan^([sic – meaning Zhongyang]) wenxian) and 世界知识出版社 (Shijie zhishi), 1995), 244, translation of original in Chinese, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1672 more examples
Another important qualification to the heroic images of the Chinese volunteers is the story of the Chinese POWs at the time of the "Big Switch" which began nine days after the signing of the truce at Banmendian (Panmunjom) on 27 July 1953 and lasted for a month.
1992 Winter, Philip West, “The Korean War and the Criteria of Significance in Chinese Popular Culture”, in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, volume 1, number 4, Brill Publishers, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 395The UN Forces rescued me from the abyss of misery. Every day and night, I have looked forward to that President JIANG would send someone to pick me up and go to Taiwan. But until now, nobody came to pick me up, and the communist bandits' representatives in Banmendian are forcing me to return to the mainland.
2017, Mao Min, “The Korean War”, in The MAO Era before the Cultural Revolution (The Revival of China), number 6, →ISBN, page 84Synonyms: Panmunjom
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Panmunjom: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
Origin
- Mandarin板門店 /板门店
- EnglishBanmendian
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 板門店 /板门店 (Bǎnméndiàn).
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