Changbai

• (from Wade–Giles) Ch'ang-pai

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 長白／长白 (Chángbái).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.baɪ/

Changbai

1. A Korean autonomous county in Baishan, Jilin, China.
   • 1980 [March 29, 1937], 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, pages 122-123:

     ARF organizations have established themselves in wide areas of China, too, inhabited largely by Koreans. This year the Changbai County Committee of the ARF has been set up, and the Korean National Liberation League has been formed as part of the ARF inside the country.

   • 2017 December 11, Perlez, Jane, “Fearing the Worst, China Plans Refugee Camps on North Korean Border”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2017, Asia Pacific‎:

     Three villages in Changbai County and two cities in the northeastern border province of Jilin, have been designated for the camps, according to the document from China Mobile.

   • 2018 April 12, Sue-Lin Wong; Damir Sagolj, “The Cold Frontier, Part Three: A journey along North Korea's edge”, in Reuters‎, archived from the original on 17 June 2022, APAC:

     But a Chinese businessman we met in Changbai County complained that now, he can only deal in pine mushrooms and pine nuts, which he sells to the United States, Japan and South Korea.

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2. Synonym of Paektu (mountain): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1888, James, H. E. M., “Introductory”, in The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria‎, Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 5:

     The principal rivers are the Yalu or Ai-chiang, the Tumen or Kaoli-chiang, the Sungari or Sung-hua-chiang, the Nonni, and the Hurka or Mu-tan-chiang. The three first rise within a short distance of one another, in the remote recess of the Ch'ang-pai-shan Mountains.]

   • [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, →OCLC, 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.]

   • [1997, Crossley, Pamela Kyle, The Manchus‎, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:

     In 1607 Nurgaci proposed to remove the population oi the village of Fiohoton, near Huncun in the remote Changbaishan region, to Hetu Ala, his new capital built to the west of the old one at Fe Ala.]

   • 2016 June 27, “Scenic zone of Changbai Mountain receives 450,000 tourists this year”, in China Daily‎, archived from the original on 28 June 2016:

     A foreign tourist poses for photo at the Tianchi Lake on the Changbai Mountain, Northeast China's Jilin province, June 26, 2016. The average daytime temperature of the Changbai Mountain is about 22 degrees Celsius in summer.

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• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changbai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 724, column 3