Lung-yen

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍巖龙岩 (Lóngyán), Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-yen².[1]

Proper noun

Lung-yen

  1. Alternative form of Longyan
    • 1974, Lloyd E. Eastman, The Abortive Revolution, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 99:
      After the Nineteenth Route Army had recovered the area around Lung-yen in western Fukien from the communists in October 1932, Hsü took the initiative in establishing the Reconstruction Council.
    • 1977, Angela N. S. Hsi, “Socialist Reform and the Fukien Rebellion 1932—34”, in Journal of Asian History, volume 11, number 1, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7:
      In October the army captured eight counties in western Fukien and established a “Committee on the Rehabilitation of Western Fukien” (Min-hsi shan-hou wei-yuan-hui) at Lung-yen.

Translations

References

  1. Longyan, Wade-Giles romanization Lung-yen, in Encyclopædia Britannica
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