Chungshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 中山 (Zhōngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-shan¹. Chungshan is also a romanization of Cantonese 中山 (zung1 saan1), the name of the city in Guangdong, China, and it coincides with its Mandarin romanization of Chungshan.
Senses: examples: text: About one-seventh of the world’s output of raw silk is produced in the Province of Kwangtung, where the principal districts from the standpoint of value of raw-silk production are Shuntak, Chungshan, Namhoi, Sunwui and Samshui. All the silk business of Kwangtung Province centers in Shuntak (south of Canton, in the Canton delta area).
ref: 1931 March 30, “Extent of Kwangtung's Silk Industry”, in Commercial Reports: A Weekly Survey of Foreign Trade, number 13, page 813:
text: Today’s communique reported engagements in Kwangtung in extreme South China. “The Chinese are advancing against enemy position at Chungshan, the Birthplace of Sun Yat Sen.—Reuter.
ref: 1942 November 2, “Engagements in S. China”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 4:
text: After this operation one battalion was left to garrison Chungshan; one company occupied Hsiaolan, about 25 kilometers northwest of Chungshan; and two companies patrolled the mountains north of Macao. In addition to this force, some 3,000 Nanking puppet troops were assigned peace preservation duties in the Chungshan area.
ref: 1962, Chalmers A. Johnson, Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945, Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
text: In Kwangtung Province, more than 45,000 cadres were sent to communes from the cities. Tʻao Chu, first secretary of the CPC Kwangtung provincial committee, worked as a county Party secretary in Chungshan County.
ref: 1966, George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 463:
text: Fourth, the Chinese who settled in the Suisun Valley all came from the same district of Loong Doo, Chungshan County, Guangdong, China, while the majority of Chinese who settled in the Sacramento River Delta were from other parts of the same county.
ref: 2001, Peter Leung, Tony Waters, “Chinese Pioneer Farming Families in Suisun Valley (1870-1980)”, in 150 Years of the Chinese Presence in California (1848-2001): Honor the Past, Engage the Present, Build the Future, Sacramento Chinese Culture Foundation, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 47:
text: Heungshan (Xiangshan) District was renamed Chungshan (Zhongshan) District in 1925 in honor of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who led the 1911 Revolution that overthrew the Qing dynasty and founded the Republic of China. In 1965 the Wong Leung Do area separated from Chungshan District to become Doumen District. Today, Doumen District is a part of Xiangzhou District of Zhuhai City.
ref: 2010, Nancy J. Rosenbloom, “The Boundaries of Convention in the Gilded Age, 1880-1900”, in Women in American History since 1880: A Documentary Reader, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhongshan (Guangdong, China)
examples: text: Strange copper objects found in western Manchuria and procured by the writer from an itinerant dealer in refuse-copper. These are exaggerated likenesses of spade-cash, but are not described in any works on coins. They are marked Chung Shan (中山). No. 16 has Er (二, two) with the characters Chung Shan inverted. Note also the duplicated lines of the inscription. Chungshan was an ancient State in western Chihli, bordering on Manchuria. These may be clumsy imitations of the old Chinese coinage, cast by the half-civilized tribes on the border. They are undoubtedly very ancient.
ref: 1912, Robert Coventry Forsyth, editor, Shantung the Sacred Province of China, Shanghai: Christian Literature Society for China, →OCLC, page 42:
text: The State of Chungshan had previously had its capital in Tinghsien county northeast of Shihchiachuang and more toward the center of Hopei province
ref: 1979 January, “Capital of One of the Warring States”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVIII, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhongshan (ancient kingdom)
examples: text: The greatest rate of increase in land value in the main business sectors of the city lies in the area of Chienkuo North Road in the Chungshan District, where land increased in price to US$1,350 per square meter, a rise of 3.3 percent over last year.
ref: 1983 November 13, “Home Ownership Rate Rises To 75 Percent In 1983”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXIV, number 45, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 3:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: In 1984, it was decided to reconstruct the building in Pinchiang Park (bīnjiāng gōngyuán) in the Chungshan District, just east of Hsinsheng N Rd and north of Mintsu E Rd. The only unfortunate thing about this location is that it’s right in the landing path of Sungshan Airport - aircraft come in so low it’s a wonder they don’t knock the roof ornaments off.
ref: 1994 July, Robert Storey, “Taipei - Things to See & Do”, in Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137, column 1:
text: Old wooden dwelling over a store on Nung An Street, Chungshan district of Taipei.
ref: 1996, Robert M. Marsh, The Great Transformation: Social Change in Taipei, Taiwan Since the 1960s, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/greattransformat0000mars/page/n199/:
text: In the Chungshan district, there is the Siping Street New Year Shopping Promenade.
ref: 2003 January 27, Yun-Ping Chang, “Holiday bazaars attract Taipei shoppers”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2022, Taiwan News, page 2:
text: Over the past four years, Taipei has spent NT$50 million (about US$1.6 million) on the project, which has established sustainable firefly populations in the Wenshan, Daan and Chungshan districts of the city.
ref: 2017 October 24, “How fireflies were brought back from the brink in urban Taipei”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 24 Oct 2017, Society:
text: Humble Boutique Hotel is located in the Chungshan District of Taipei City, the hotel is just one-minute walk from Songjiang Nanjing MRT Station.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Humble House Taipei”, in My Humble House Group, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of Zhongshan (Taiwan)