ch'ang-ch'un

Example Sentences

• "The Pan-la-mên coal-field is situated about 16 km. south of Ssŭ-pʻing-chieh station on the railway between Chʻang-tʻu and Chʻang-chʻun."
• "Ch'ang-ch'un has become even more important ever since the building of the automobile plant in 1953-56 and the transfer of the provincial capitol here in 1954. At present, Ch'ang-ch'un is the political, economical, cultural, and transport center of Kirin Province, the first ranking important city in the central part of the northeast, and one of our country's modern, newly developed industrial cities."
• "The city began as a local trading centre for north Chinese settlers at the end of the 18th century. It expanded rapidly and from 1905 to 1935 was a major junction and transshipment point between the Russian-owned broad-gauge Chinese Eastern railway and the Japanese-owned standard-gauge South Manchurian railway. Ch’ang-ch’un was equipped with sizable railroad shops and also became the junction for railways extending westward into Inner Mongolia and eastward into northern Korea."
• "In 1957, P'u-yi consented to her request for a divorce, and a year or so later she married a radio broadcasting technician. She gave birth to a son in 1962. At present she lives in Ch'ang-ch'un."
• "But P'u-yi was nothing if not soft when it came to family, and he arranged for the young man to live with his uncle Beitzu P'u-hsiu in P'u-yi's old house in T'ien-ching. So Yü-t'ai was well clear of Ch'ang-ch'un when the axe fell in 1945."
• "Aug 21, 1945 Russians take Ch'ang-ch'un"