Lung-ling
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 龍陵/龙陵 (Lónglíng), Wade-Giles romanization: Lung²-ling².
Proper noun
Lung-ling
- Alternative form of Longling
- 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China, Shoe String Press, published 1967, LCCN 67-16409, OCLC 473651484, page 304:
- Most of the people have migrated from Lung-ling and to a lesser extent from T'eng-ch'ung. The people are simple and primitive, and the females all bind their feet.
- 1987, Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His lieutenants, and Their War, New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, page 564:
- The crossing of the Salween in mid-May was unopposed and Yoke Force made slow but steady progress until the Japanese counterattacked at Lung-ling and hopes ended of a breakthrough to Myitkyina from the east. By September, Chiang Kai-shek was threatening to pull Yoke Force back into China.
- 2004, Gerald Astor, The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., page 333:
- Fearful that the Japanese forces at Lung-ling would mount a counterattack and eventually overrun the Chinese and cross the Salween River, the generalissimo added to the issues a request that the Chinese soldiers who fought at Myitkyina be redeployed to the Lung-ling front. Chiang could not order but only ask for these troops because once they entered Burma they were part of Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia Command.