Hailanpao
See also: Hǎilánpāo
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 海蘭泡／海兰泡 (Hǎilánpāo) Wade–Giles romanization: Hai³-lan²-pʻao¹.
Proper noun
Hailanpao
- Synonym of Blagoveshchensk: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
- 1892 [January 1891], “Promotion of an Officer on the Russian Frontier”, in Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1891, Shanghai, OCLC 1049545278, page 18, column 1:
- The provincial capital of Heilungchiang closely adjoins the Russian frontier town of Hailanpao (?) and international questions are constantly arising. At the request of the Governor the Tsungli Yamên appointed Keng Shan, a pupil of the Tung-wên-kuan, with nominal rank as a second class secretary of a board, to co-operate with the Deputy Lieutenant-General stationed there in the management of international affairs.
- 1973, Huang, Joe C., “The Formative Years - The Village”, in Heroes and Villains in Communist China: The Contemporary Chinese Novel as a Reflection of Life, New York: Pica Press, →ISBN, LCCN 73-78947, OCLC 995551931, page 33:
- For twenty-five years he has done all sorts of odd jobs: digging ginseng (a herb) in the Long White Mountains, fishing in the Black River, and washing gold dust at Hailanpao. Without this education, he would never have become an undaunted revolutionary.
- 1977 November, Alley, Rewi, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, ISSN 0012-8813, OCLC 751117974, page 8, column 2:
- The Heilungkiang River which the Russians call the Amur is rather narrower than I had expected it to be, and the old Chinese town of Hailanpao, now the Russian one of Blagoveshchensk, is dominated by a television tower.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hailanpao.
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Translations
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Further reading
- “Hailanpao” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.