Fangchuan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the Mandarin 防川 (Fángchuān).
Proper noun[edit]
Fangchuan
- A village in Jingxin, Hunchun, Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint area.
- 1997 [1996], Willem van Kemenade, translated by Diane Webb, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.[1], New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318:
- A ride along the Chinese shore of the Tumen River illustrated its potential for development. From the city of Tumen, which was given a rail link in 1993, all the way to Fangchuan in the southern appendix of the municipality, there lies on the Chinese side a 100-kilometer-long strip of meadow and woodlands.
- 2005, Xiangming Chen, As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim[2], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 179:
- The Chinese border town of Fangchuan, the easternmost point of China’s land border along the Tumen River, is only 2 km from the North Korean border train station at Doo-Man River Lee (an equivalent of a township). The rail and land crossings connect Hunchun conveniently with the three North Korean ports of Rajin (90 km away), Sonbong, and Chongjin. Finally, with the town of Fangchuan only 15 km away from the Sea of Japan, Hunchun marks the closest shipping point from northeastern China to the west coast of Japan, with a distance of 800 km from Niigata (see Liu and Liao, 1993).
- 2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China (Frommer's)[3], 5th edition, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 184:
- A late-afternoon bus ride through the Yanbian countryside as sunlight glitters on fields of rice and warms the upturned roofs of Korean huts, is one of the most exquisite experiences available in the Northeast during July. The best excuse to take such a ride is Fangchuan, a tiny town at the end of a needle-thin strip of Chinese territory between North Korea and Russia, and China's preeminent border-viewing spot. A view from the tower here (¥20) provides vistas of Russia, North Korea and, on a clear day, the northern edge of Japan.
- 2015 October 15, Anna Fifield, “A remote corner of China wants access to the sea. The obstacle is North Korea.”, in The Washington Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2015, Asia & Pacific[5]:
- Parts of Russia, China and North Korea are seen from a tower in Fangchuan, Hunchun, China, on Aug. 7, 2015. The lake area on the left is in Russia, the land in the middle is in China and the right side of Tumen River is in North Korea.
- 2020 August 2, “Border village turns into tourist attraction in China's Jilin”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[6], archived from the original on August 5, 2020:
- A tourist strolls at Fangchuan Village in Jingxin Town of Hunchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, Aug. 1, 2020. Taking advantage of its unique culture and folk customs, the border village has turned into a tourist attraction and successfully merged agriculture with tourism by developing homestay and farm stay business.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Fangchuan.
Translations[edit]
village in northeast China
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