Jilin

Latin: jilinensis

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吉林 (Jílín), from Manchu ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ (girin).

A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China.

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Changchun

/t͡ʃæŋˈt͡ʃʊn/

It costs but from $0.86 to $1.14 per ton to load Japanese coal into the cars at the mines, and as these are under the control of the South Manchuria Railway it is said that coal is freighted to Changchun free.

1915 August 24, Charles K. Moser, “China-Manchuria”, in Supplement to Commerce Reports, number 52h, Harbin, page 3:

A “big-character” wall appearing in Changchun, Kirin Province, on Feb. 2, denounced the Chinese Communist regime’s crackdown on dissidents clamoring for human rights, an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said April 3.
The wall poster accused the Peiping regime [of] "practicing Fascist totalitarianism," the report said, adding that some 40 people in Changchun had been arrested for putting up wall posters.

1979 April 8, “Wallposter in Kirin”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 13, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

At least one person was killed and another was injured in a series of explosions Friday afternoon in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, the local authorities said.
The police are tentatively treating the explosions as “a criminal case,” the propaganda office of the Changchun Municipal Communist Party Committee said in a statement posted online.

2019 January 25, Austin Ramzy, “Explosions Shake Shopping District in Changchun, China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-01-26, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city and subprovincial city, the provincial capital of Jilin, in northeastern China.

تْشَانْج شُون

a sub-provincial city in northeastern China


Hunchun

From Mandarin 琿春／珲春 (Húnchūn), from Manchu ᡥᡠᠨᠴᡠᠨ (huncun).

A convention concluded with China by Count Cassini, the Russian minister at Pekin, in the summer of 1896, in the form in which it was made public, conceded to the Russian Government the privilege of building a branch of the Siberian Railroad from some city in Siberia to Aiyun, in the Amur province, thence southwestward to the provincial capital of Tsitsihar and to Petune, in Kirin, and thence southeastward to the provincial capital of Kirin ; also to make a prolongation from the Russian port of Vladivostok to Hunchun, in Kirin province, and thence to the provincial capital of Kirin.

1897, China (Annual Cyclopaedia), volume 2, D. Appleton & Company, page 137:

The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.

1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China, Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

The influx into the Chientao (間島) of Corean farmers, hunters, and trappers had long been a burning question before the Governments of China and Japan finally agreed by the Chientao Convention of 1909 or China-Corean Frontier Agreement to recognize the Tumen river as the boundary between Corea and China, and to open Lungchingtsun (龍井村) along with three other places to foreign residence and trade. A Chinese Custom House was accordingly opened here on 1st January 1910, but was made subordinate to the Hunchun (琿春) Customs.² It remained in this subordinate position till July 1924 when the head office was transferred to Lungchingtsun,³ while Hunchun—at which in accordance with the Manchurian Convention of 1905 a Custom House had been opened on 27th December 1909—fell into the position of a branch office. The reason for this deposition of Hunchun was the advent in 1923 of the T’ien T’u (天圖) light railway which running through Lungchingtsun to Yen Chi Fu (延吉府) connected both places with the frontier district of Kaishantun, and thence through Kainei (Hui Ning 會甯) to the Corean port of Seishin.

1938, Stanley F. Wright, “From the Revision that Failed to the Peking Tariff Conference of 1925-1926”, in China's Struggle for Tariff Autonomy: 1843-1938, Paragon Book Gallery, →OCLC, page 406:

Hu-t'ou and Tung-ning fell within the first two days, and by August 11 Mu-leng and Hunchun had fallen.

1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia, volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2701:

In the Chinese border town of Hunchun, garment factories gladly employ squads of North Koreans, who are valued as skilled and dutiful workers.

2018 June 5, Jane Perlez, Iris Zhao, Luz Ding, Su-Hyun Lee, “China’s Trade With North Korea Is Set to Soar With a Trump-Kim Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-05, Asia Pacific:

Ten years ago, I joined a U.S. trade delegation for the chance to visit, as a journalist, a remote part of China that borders both North Korea and Russia. As we traveled around, local Chinese greeters proudly pointed out the contrasting vistas: rugged empty hills in North Korea and isolated clusters of Soviet-era buildings in Russia, whereas in China, commerce and construction abounded between booming border towns. In one such town, Hunchun, population 250,000, regional officials asked me if I planned to write anything. Perhaps something cultural, I suggested. I hoped for a window onto Chinese life in this far-flung zone.

2019 September 5, Melik Kaylan, “China Has a Soft-Power Problem”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-31:

The Changchun COVID-19 prevention office said the squid had been imported from Russia by a company in Hunchun city and brought to the provincial capital.

2020 September 20, Shivani Singh, Sophie Yu, “Coronavirus found on imported squid packaging in China”, in Philippa Fletcher, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-22, Health News:

A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, formerly a county.


Siping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 四平 (Sìpíng).

In 2015, four teachers at a RYB Education kindergarten in Siping, northeast China, were charged with using sewing needles to jab more than 20 children on their heads, mouths and limbs, supposedly as punishment.

2017 November 24, Chris Buckley, Karoline Kan, “Beijing Kindergarten Is Accused of Abuse, and Internet Erupts in Fury”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-11-24, Asia Pacific:


Tonghua

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 通化 (Tōnghuà).

An official in the northeastern Chinese city of Tonghua, where residents are barred from leaving their homes amid a strict lockdown, apologized to residents who said they had not been receiving enough food.
Tonghua, an industrial city of about two million people in Jilin Province, went into lockdown on Jan. 20 after the number of recent cases grew to nearly 100.

2021 January 26, Salman Masood, Lin Qiqing, “Chinese city apologizes over food shortages during lockdown, and other news from around the world.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-26:

通化

prefecture-level city or county of Jilin, China


Tumen

zh-l

圖們／图们 (Túmén)

The Tumen River serves as part of the border between China and North Korea, with the Chinese city of Tumen on the left and the North Korean town of Namyang on the right.

2010 June 9, Sharon LaFraniere, “Views Show How North Korea Policy Spread Misery”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2010-06-11, Asia Pacific:

When she was ten years old, he was arrested and never heard from again. After that, Grandmother Hwang was abandoned by her family, and ended up working as a farm laborer in Tumen, China—which was then part of the Japanese empire.

2015, Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers, “Swallows and Magpies”, in In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Non-fiction), Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:

Trade between China and North Korea has fallen dramatically because of sanctions, but the U.N. has not sanctioned essentials like food.
Towards the end of the day in Tumen, we watched these women cross into China from North Korea.
Tumen is in Yanbian, an official Korean autonomous region which people call “the third Korea” because around half the two million Chinese of Korean descent are registered there. There is a small missionary community in Yanbian - mainly South Koreans, Americans and Europeans. Some of them help North Korean defectors.

2018 April 12, Sue-Lin Wong, “PART 1 A POROUS BORDER The Cold Frontier”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2018-04-12:

A county-level city in Yanbian, Jilin, China


Baishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白山 (Báishān).

Baishan hydroelectric station is located 39 km from the downstream Hongshi hydroelectric station and 250 km from the downstream Fengman hydroelectric station, Jilin Province, China, on the upper reaches of the Second Songhua River,[...]In Baishan district the weather is very cold in winter (lowest temperature, -44.5°C; highest temperature, 38.8°C; long-term average, 4.3°C).

1986, Zongyan Guo, Zhou Yukun, “Segment-shaped blasting in Baishan hydroelectric station excavations, China”, in Rock engineering and excavation in an urban environment, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 181:

The accident occurred July 1 at a coal mine near Baishan, a city in Jilin province, the Beijing Evening News reported. It said rescue efforts were finally called off this week and the missing miners declared dead.

2001 July 18, “Report: Floods Kill 21 Coal Miners”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-22:


Baicheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 白城 (Báichéng).

Pai-ch’eng, also called T’AO-AN, Pinyin BAICHENG or TAOAN, city, Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region (tzu-chih-ch’ü), China. It is a county-level municipality (shih) and the administrative centre of Pai-ch’eng Prefecture (ti-ch’ü).

[1991, “Pai-ch’eng”, in The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, volume 9, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 62, column 2:

In Baicheng Prefecture of Jilin Province, the entire wool clip is sold directly to wool processors on a clean-yield basis.

1995, John W. Longworth, Colin G. Brown, “Testing Times”, in Agribusiness Reforms in China: The Case of Wool, CAB International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 89:

China WindPower Group 0182.HK climbed 3.2 percent after it said it had entered into an agreement to be granted exclusive rights to develop wind power projects with a capacity of 1,500 megawatts in Baicheng, in the Jilin province.

2009 July 15, “HK, Shanghai shares buoyed by U.S., China optimism”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-26, Investment Services:

Little Lu Chenchen failed to breathe and his heart beat only ten times a minute when he was born at 12:10 pm on Jan 6 in a hospital in Baicheng City, Jilin Province.

2017 January 12, “Asphyxiated newborn survives after 350-km rescue mission”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2020-01-10:

A prefecture-level city in Jilin, China, formerly a prefecture


Ji'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 集安 (Jí'ān).

A policewoman at the Chinese border town of Ji'an said: "Some leader came yesterday," but declined further comment on reports that the two Kims had traveled there on late on Wednesday.

2010 August 26, Maxim Duncan, Jeremy Laurence, Brett Cole, Kwon Youri, Tabassum Zakaria, Chris Buckley, Jonathan Thatcher, “Kim Jong-il makes surprise China visit: sources”, in Sanjeev Miglani, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, World News:

After watching Mr. Kim’s movements for the past few days, the South Korean authorities said his train had crossed the border with China, traveling from the North Korean town of Manpo to Jian in China, according to an official at the presidential Blue House in Seoul.

[2010 August 26, Choe Sang-Hun, Sharon LaFraniere, “Carter Wins Release of American in North Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-09, Asia Pacific:

In particular, the recent opening of a bridge connecting the Chinese city of Jian (集安) and the North Korean town of Manpho (만포, 满浦) suggests that both the DPRK and China seem to be willing to open what would be a third economic cooperation corridor, in addition to the main Dandong-Sinuiju axis and the already existing Hunchun-Rason routes linking North Hamgyong Province with the Yanbian Korean Prefecture of Jilin Province. This was revealed during fieldwork interviews I conducted in Jian and the borderlands in 2018.

[2019 May 3, Théo Clément, “The Jian-Manpho Bridge: Another Failed Attempt at Economic Integration or One More Nail in the Coffin of “Maximum Pressure”?”, in 38 North, archived from the original on 2019-05-05:

A county-level city in Tonghua, Jilin, China.


Helong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 和龍／和龙 (Hélóng).

The tactics of the General culminated in victory in the battle of Hualatzu, Antu county in March 1940, the battle of Yangtsaokou, Tungnancha, Antu county in April, the battle of Shihliping, Holung county in May and the subsequent battle of Yulangtsun, Holung county.

[1969, Bong Baik, “Large-Troop Circling Operations that Terrified Japanese Imperialism”, in Kim Il Sung Biography: From Birth to Triumphant Return to Homeland, volume I, Tokyo: Miraisha, →OCLC, page 464:

In this large-scale operation of advance into the homeland we plan to dispatch the KPRA in three directions: The main unit will cross the Amnok River and push towards Hyesan, a strongpoint of frontier guards of the Japanese imperialists; another unit is to skirt Mt. Paektu and push on, by way of Antu and Helong, to the northern border area adjoining the Tuman River; and the third unit is to advance as far as the Linjiang and Changbai areas on the shore of the Amnok River.

1980 [1937 March 29], Kim Il-sung, “Let Us Inspire the People with Hopes of National Liberation by Advancing with Large Forces into the Motherland”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 126:

The Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his 26-year-old daughter and another man aged 67 were killed Saturday. It said in a statement that police from the provincial to the local levels were investigating.[…]
Calls to Helong city and Yanbian prefecture government spokesmen rang unanswered on Thursday.

2015 April 30, Christopher Bodeen, “3 killed in Chinese town where North Koreans blamed in past”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.


Longjing

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 龍井／龙井 (Lóngjǐng).

The influx into the Chientao (間島) of Corean farmers, hunters, and trappers had long been a burning question before the Governments of China and Japan finally agreed by the Chientao Convention of 1909 or China-Corean Frontier Agreement to recognize the Tumen river as the boundary between Corea and China, and to open Lungchingtsun (龍井村) along with three other places to foreign residence and trade. A Chinese Custom House was accordingly opened here on 1st January 1910, but was made subordinate to the Hunchun (琿春) Customs.² It remained in this subordinate position till July 1924 when the head office was transferred to Lungchingtsun,³ while Hunchun—at which in accordance with the Manchurian Convention of 1905 a Custom House had been opened on 27th December 1909—fell into the position of a branch office. The reason for this deposition of Hunchun was the advent in 1923 of the T’ien T’u (天圖) light railway which running through Lungchingtsun to Yen Chi Fu (延吉府) connected both places with the frontier district of Kaishantun, and thence through Kainei (Hui Ning 會甯) to the Corean port of Seishin.

[1938, Stanley F. Wright, “From the Revision that Failed to the Peking Tariff Conference of 1925-1926”, in China's Struggle for Tariff Autonomy: 1843-1938, Paragon Book Gallery, →OCLC, page 406:

Longjing county is another part of eastern Jilin province. It is located on the left bank of the middle reaches of the Tumen river. The Longgang range — a branch of the Changbai range — extends into the southern part of its territory.

1995, Zhen-hua Liu, “Recent Neolithic Discoveries in Jilin Province”, in The Archaeology of Northeast China: Beyond the Great Wall, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 95:

The meeting was attended by approximately 30 people involved in youth work, including YCL committee members and heads of children’s departments in the Wangqing area, delegates of young people from Yanji, and student delegates (underground workers) from Longjing.

2008 [1935], Il-sung Kim, “With the Conviction of Independence”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, pages 67–68:

* Chinese officials will lift African swine fever-related restrictions in Longjing city, in northeastern Jilin province, the Ministry of Agriculture said on Wednesday

2018 December 19, “China to lift African swine fever limits for city in Jilin province”, in Louise Heavens, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-12, Consumer Products & Retail News:

Five ethnic Korean children prayed in a local church in Longjing, which borders North Korea and is home to a large ethnic Korean community.

2019 February 26, Tiffany May, “Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-26, Lens:

A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, across the Tumen River from Hoeryong, North Hamgyong, North Korea.


Yanji

The atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 延吉 (Yánjí)

In eastern Manchuria alone, there is a growing tendency to refuse to surrender among the army units stationed in Helong and Yanji; thousands of soldiers, in groups or individually, have already risen up in Wangqing, Antu and other districts.

1980 [1931 December 16], Il-sung Kim, “On Organizing and Waging Armed Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 38:

In a separate case, North Korea in April sentenced 62-year-old Kim Dong-chul to 10 years in prison with hard labor for “perpetrating . . . subversive plots and espionage” against the state.
Kim, who became an American citizen in 1987 and lived in Fairfax County, Va., moved in 2001 to the Chinese city of Yanji, on the border with North Korea.

2016 September 24, Anna Fifield, “North Korea shows no sign of wanting to talk about releasing two Americans”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-09-24, Asia & Pacific:

I traveled from Yanji to Dandong, along China’s border with North Korea, to learn how tensions are affecting life there.

2017 September 26, Chris Buckley, “Snapshots Along the River Where China Meets North Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-09-26:


Linjiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 臨江／临江 (Línjiāng).

In mid-December the enemy sent eight complete divisions to invade the Linchiang area, arrogantly blustering: "We will drive the Communists into the Yalu to bite at the ice. We will drive them up the Changpai Mountains to chew on the rocks."

[1967 January, Tso-peng Li, “Three Campaigns to the South of the Sungari River”, in China Reconstructs, volume XVI, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 3:

Although the entire Communist force was driven back to the Korean border by early November, the commanders of the Fourth Column derived some satisfaction from their near destruction of the Nationalist 25th Division, after a fierce four-day battle at Hsin-k’ai-ling, west of K’uantien.* Moreover, their planned withdrawal to the vicinity of Linchiang in southwestern Kirin Province had diverted the Nationalists from exerting major pressure against Lin Piao’s main force at Harbin and Yüshu.

[1973, William W. Whitson, Chen-hsia Huang, “The Fourth Field Army Elite”, in The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics, 1927-71, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:

A county-level city in Baishan, Jilin, China.


Liaoyuan

They waited on the platform as our overnight train pulled into Liaoyuan, a small (by Chinese standards) Northeastern city of one million people. They were my first impression of Manchuria, and I liked them immediately.

2015, Michael Meyer, “Quid Pro Quo”, in In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 21:


Dunhua

The 20-year-old speaks only a little Korean and has no South Korean friends. She has yet to travel alone beyond Seoul and often spends time chatting online with her friends back in China.
Her mother fled their home in Dunhua city in northeastern China in early 2017 after seeing a fellow North Korean woman in their village being arrested and sent back to North Korea.

2019 December 3, HYUNG-JIN KIM, “Half-North Korean, half-Chinese kids struggle in South Korea”, in AP News, sourced from UIJEONGBU, South Korea (AP), archived from the original on 2023-10-09:


Meihekou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 梅河口 (Méihékǒu).


Panshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 磐石 (Pánshí).

A county-level city in Jilin, Jilin, China.


Huadian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 樺甸／桦甸 (Huàdiàn).


Jiaohe

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 蛟河 (Jiāohé).


Shulan

And on Sunday, Shulan in Jilin Province declared that it was at “high risk” from the epidemic after a rash of at least 15 infections around the area that started with a woman who was reported to have no history of contact with known cases.

2020 May 12, “Under Coronavirus Lockdown, India’s Carbon Emissions Plunge: Live Coverage”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-05-12, The Coronavirus Outbreak: