Mu-tan-chiang

English

Map including MU-TAN-CHIANG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 牡丹江 (Mǔdānjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Mu³-tan¹-chiang¹.^[1][2]

Proper noun

Mu-tan-chiang

1. Alternative form of Mudanjiang
   • 1888, H. E. M. James, The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria‎, 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.

   • 1965, Alexey Okladnikov, The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R.‎, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 183:

     The balanced planning of the ancient city on the Mu-tan-chiang corresponds on the whole to the layout of the capital of the T'ang Dynasty, Ch'ang-an. The same street plans are found in the ancient capitals of Japan, Nara and Kyoto, built on the Chinese model.

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

     The key to the front was the town of Mu-tan-chiang, where the Japanese 5th Army (Lieutenant-General N. Shimizu) had concentrated.

   • 2012, A. A. Evans, David Gibbons, The Illustrated Timeline of World War II‎, New York: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247:

     Aug 11-16, 1945 Russians take Mu-tan-chiang, key position in the east, after a see-saw battle

Translations

Mudanjiang — see Mudanjiang

References

1. Mudanjiang, Wade-Giles romanization Mu-tan-chiang, in Encyclopædia Britannica
2. Shabad, Theodore (1972) “Index”, in China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 358:

   Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles: […] (1) the Post Office system, […] (2) the Wade-Giles system, […] shown after the main entry […] (3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parentheses […] Mutankiang (Mu-tan-chiang, Mudanjiang)

Further reading

• “Mu-tan-chiang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Mu-tan-chiang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• William H. Harris, Judith S. Levey, editors (1975), “Mu-tan-chiang or Mutankiang”, in The New Columbia Encyclopedia‎, Fourth edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1868, column 1