Meaning of Ha-erh-pin | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Farther inland and adjoining these riverside districts is the new city of Harbin, which developed largely after the First World War. The population of the city increased eightfold from 40,500 in 1911 to 332,000 in 1931 and then doubled to 661,000 by 1940. The city was officially called Pinkiang under Manchukuo rule. Its present official Chinese name is Harbin, which is rendered phonetically by means of the characters Ha-erh-pin.”

“The Heilungkiang plants at Ha-erh-pin (Harbin), Fu-la-erh-chi and Chia-mu-ssu are built in centers of machinery production, which includes the production of electrical equipment.”

“Nobody knows how many Chinese soldiers died. But communications along that border back to Ha-erh-pin and to Peking ceased to exist.”

“Russia negotiated yet one more agreement with China, this time to link the Liao-tung concession by rail to the Chinese Eastern Railway at Ha-erh-pin (Harbin), located in the middle of Manchuria.”

“I come now to the northern section between K'uan Ch'êng-tzŭ and Stretensk. 20 li south of the Sungari, and in a direct line between Hulan and A-Shih-ho, a Russian town called Ha-êrh-pin or Ha-mo has sprung up round what was originally a solitary Chinese house.”

“The eastern section from Vladivostock- which crosses the Manchurian frontier at San-Ch'a-kou and will pass a few miles to the north of Ninguta, go westward to Yi-mien-p'o, and northwest to A-shih-ho, leaving that town on its left- will join the southern section on the south bank of the Sungari. The junction is really effected at a place called Ha-êrh-pin (Harbin), some 6 miles to the south of the river.”

“There was one solitary house - a Chinese distillery - on the spot at the time; but at the present moment Ha-êrh-pin, Ha-mo, or Harbin as is it now generally called, is a largest town of several thousand inhabitants, consisting for the most part of Russians connected with, and for the protection of, the Trans-Manchurian Railway.”

“Kharbin[…] It is quite a modern Russian town having been founded in 1899 as a centre for the administration of the East China Railyway and the civil and military control of Manchuria. The Celestials call it Ha-êrh-pin. The city was officially opened to international trade on the 14th January 1907, in accordance with the terms of the Chino-Japanese treaty of the 22nd December 1905.”

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