Hunchun

See also: Hun-ch'un and Húnchūn

English

Alternative forms

• Hun-ch'un, Hun-chun (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 琿春／珲春 (Húnchūn), from Manchu ᡥᡠᠨᠴᡠᠨ (huncun).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ho͝onʹcho͝onʹ

Proper noun

Hunchun

1. A county-level city in Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, formerly a county.
   • 1897, China (Annual Cyclopaedia)‎^[2], volume 2, D. Appleton & Company, page 137:

     A convention concluded with China by Count Cassini, the Russian minister at Pekin, in the summer of 1896, in the form in which it was made public, conceded to the Russian Government the privilege of building a branch of the Siberian Railroad from some city in Siberia to Aiyun, in the Amur province, thence southwestward to the provincial capital of Tsitsihar and to Petune, in Kirin, and thence southeastward to the provincial capital of Kirin ; also to make a prolongation from the Russian port of Vladivostok to Hunchun, in Kirin province, and thence to the provincial capital of Kirin.

   • 1910, The Provinces of China, Together with a History of the First Year of H.I.M. Hsuan Tung, and an Account of the Government of China‎^[3], Shanghai: The National Review Office, →OCLC, →OL, page 155:

     The Tumen is not yet so important as the Yalu, but with the development of a rival to Vladivostock, now a closed port, in Hunchun, it is acquiring greater importance.

   • 1938, Stanley F. Wright, “From the Revision that Failed to the Peking Tariff Conference of 1925-1926”, in China's Struggle for Tariff Autonomy: 1843-1938‎^[4], Paragon Book Gallery, →OCLC, page 406:

     The influx into the Chientao (間島) of Corean farmers, hunters, and trappers had long been a burning question before the Governments of China and Japan finally agreed by the Chientao Convention of 1909 or China-Corean Frontier Agreement to recognize the Tumen river as the boundary between Corea and China, and to open Lungchingtsun (龍井村) along with three other places to foreign residence and trade. A Chinese Custom House was accordingly opened here on 1st January 1910, but was made subordinate to the Hunchun (琿春) Customs.² It remained in this subordinate position till July 1924 when the head office was transferred to Lungchingtsun,³ while Hunchun—at which in accordance with the Manchurian Convention of 1905 a Custom House had been opened on 27th December 1909—fell into the position of a branch office. The reason for this deposition of Hunchun was the advent in 1923 of the T’ien T’u (天圖) light railway which running through Lungchingtsun to Yen Chi Fu (延吉府) connected both places with the frontier district of Kaishantun, and thence through Kainei (Hui Ning 會甯) to the Corean port of Seishin.

   • 1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia‎^[5], volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2701:

     Hu-t'ou and Tung-ning fell within the first two days, and by August 11 Mu-leng and Hunchun had fallen.

   • 2018 June 5, Jane Perlez, Iris Zhao, Luz Ding, Su-Hyun Lee, “China’s Trade With North Korea Is Set to Soar With a Trump-Kim Deal”, in The New York Times‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-05, Asia Pacific‎^[7]:

     In the Chinese border town of Hunchun, garment factories gladly employ squads of North Koreans, who are valued as skilled and dutiful workers.

   • 2019 September 5, Melik Kaylan, “China Has a Soft-Power Problem”, in The Wall Street Journal‎^[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 December 2019:

     Ten years ago, I joined a U.S. trade delegation for the chance to visit, as a journalist, a remote part of China that borders both North Korea and Russia. As we traveled around, local Chinese greeters proudly pointed out the contrasting vistas: rugged empty hills in North Korea and isolated clusters of Soviet-era buildings in Russia, whereas in China, commerce and construction abounded between booming border towns. In one such town, Hunchun, population 250,000, regional officials asked me if I planned to write anything. Perhaps something cultural, I suggested. I hoped for a window onto Chinese life in this far-flung zone.

   • 2020 September 20, Shivani Singh, Sophie Yu, “Coronavirus found on imported squid packaging in China”, in Philippa Fletcher, editor, Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 2022-05-22, Health News‎^[10]:

     The Changchun COVID-19 prevention office said the squid had been imported from Russia by a company in Hunchun city and brought to the provincial capital.

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

Synonyms

• (from Manchu) Huncun

Derived terms

• hunchunite

Translations

county-level city in northeast China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 琿春／珲春 (zh) (Húnchūn)

• Japanese: 琿春 (こんしゅん, Konshun)
• Korean: 훈춘 (Hunchun)
• Vietnamese: Hồn Xuân

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hunchun”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[11], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1333, column 3

Anagrams

• unhunch