Changbai

English

Alternative forms

• Ch'ang-pai, Changpai (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃæŋ.baɪ/

Proper noun

Changbai

1. A Korean autonomous county in Baishan, Jilin, China.
   • 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^[1], 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 September 6, Stephen Chen, “China detects rising radiation levels in areas close to North Korean nuclear blast site”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 September 2017, Diplomacy & Defense‎^[3]:

     The radiation level in Changbai Korean autonomous county – the closest Chinese urban area to the Punggye-ri test facility – climbed gradually from an average of 104.9 nanograys per hour immediately after the test on Sunday to 108.5 on Tuesday, according to figures released by China’s environment ministry.

   • 2017 December 11, Jane Perlez, “Fearing the Worst, China Plans Refugee Camps on North Korean Border”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 December 2017, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     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^[6], 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.

   • 2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[7], archived from the original on 20 September 2018‎^[8]:

     “[China’s] Changbai county [in Jilin province] and [North Korea’s] Hyesan [city in Yanggang province] are so tense that one barely sees any cars or people around,” said the source, who also asked to remain unnamed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Changbai.
2. Synonym of Paektu (mountain): the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • [1888, H. E. M. James, “Introductory”, in The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria‎^[9], 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, Joe C. Huang, “The Formative Years - The Village”, in Heroes and Villains in Communist China: The Contemporary Chinese Novel as a Reflection of Life‎^[10], 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, Pamela Kyle Crossley, The Manchus‎^[11], 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^[12], 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.

   • 2017 September 6, Stephen Chen, “China detects rising radiation levels in areas close to North Korean nuclear blast site”, in South China Morning Post‎^[13], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 September 2017, Diplomacy & Defense‎^[14]:

     The radiation level in Changbai Korean autonomous county – the closest Chinese urban area to the Punggye-ri test facility – climbed gradually from an average of 104.9 nanograys per hour immediately after the test on Sunday to 108.5 on Tuesday, according to figures released by China’s environment ministry. […]
     Similar upward trends were reported by monitoring stations in other regions, including in Antu county at the foot of Changbai Mountain and in Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture further north.

   • 2018 September 20, Joonho Kim, Joshua Lipes, “North Korea Shuts Down Illegal Cell Phone Access to Chinese Networks Amid Kim-Moon Summit”, in Leejin Jun, transl., Radio Free Asia‎^[15], archived from the original on 20 September 2018‎^[16]:

     The source said that a friend from Jilin’s Antu county had told him that only border crossing between the two nations by land, across North Korea’s sacred Mt. Paekdu—known in China as Mt. Changbai—had been closed from Sept. 17-21.

   • 2023 April 13, Yejin (Jenny) Son, “An Awakening of a Geological Giant: The Next Deadly Eruption of Mount Baekdu”, in The New York Times‎^[17], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 April 2023, STEM WRITING CONTEST WINNER‎^[18]:

     On the border between China and North Korea lies an active volcano called Mount Baekdu, also known as Changbai in China, that undergoes a major eruption every 1,000 years.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Changbai.

Translations

Korean autonomous county

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 長白／长白 (zh) (Chángbái)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changbai”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[19], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 724, column 3