Ch'ang-pai
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 長白／长白 (Chángbái) Wade–Giles romanization: Chʻang²-pai².[1]
Proper noun
Ch'ang-pai
- Alternative form of Changbai
- 1971, William Watson, Cultural Frontiers in Ancient East Asia, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 70-159591, OCLC 906061811, page 128:
- The last zone, lying beyond the Ch‘ang-pai mountains, was in special isolation and culturally as retarded as regions much farther north.
- 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, ATLAS OF CHINA, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, LCCN 72-8717, OCLC 1204247698, OL 9249878M, page 16:
- The ranges running northeast-southwest include the Ch'ang-pai in eastern Manchuria and the Wu-i in Fukien.
- 1975 [1961], “THE NOVICE MONK”, in Charles Curwen, transl.; Andrew C. Kimmens, editor, Tales of the Ginseng, William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, LCCN 75-9888, OCLC 1131435660, page 25:
- So the ginseng child stopped crying and fled with the pine tree from Shantung to the mountains east of the pass, and settled down in the ancient forest in the Ch'ang-pai Mountains. Where else can the pine trees and ginseng in the Ch'ang-pai Mountains have come from?
- [1980 May 4, “International exchange to enhance film awards ceremony”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXI, number 17, Taipei, ISSN 0016-0318, OCLC 1786626, page 2:
- The movie, entitled “Death Mission at Cold Hawk Castle” (Hsueh Chien Leng Ying Pao) has a strong cast led by Ko Chung-hsiung, Chang Ai-chia, and Sun Yueh, and tells how the Russian Communists attempted to interfere with Chinese efforts to take back Manchuria at the end of the war.[...]Cold Hawk Castle, near Changpai mountain in Manchuria, is one of the major centers for Russian agents, and the place where they train the assassins.]
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Translations
Changbai — see Changbai
References
- Changbai Mountains, (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch’ang-pai Shan, in Encyclopædia Britannica