Meaning of Hei-lung-chiang | Babel Free

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Noun. [C2]

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“In the best caravans, that is those which go into the provinces of Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang and into Mongolia, a team usually consists of a pony in the shafts and six tracing mules three abreast.”

“Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓^([sic – meaning 哈爾濱])) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.”

“From all reports, the increase in mechanization over the past three decades has been impressive, although much of the evidence comes form communes and production brigades which have had "model" or "demonstration" status, and from the state farms in frontier areas such as Hei-lung-chiang, which were pioneered by Japanese soldier-settlers during the Manchuko period in an attempt to establish a soldier-yeomanry that would provide protection against Russian threats to northern Manchuria.”

“Ting Ling had disappeared from public life in 1958. She was accused of being a "Rightist" and was sent to a farm in Hei-lung-chiang Province in remote northeast China, worked there twelve years raising chickens, was in prison five years (1970-1975), and began to live in a village in Shansi in 1975.”

“The capital of Parhae, called Sanggyŏng or "High Capital" was located at modern Tung-ching-ch'eng in Hei-lung-chiang province, Manchuria, and there were four secondary capitals- the "Central Capital" at modern Tun-hua in Chi-lin province, Manchuria, "Eastern Capital" at Hun-ch'un in Chi-lin, "Southern Capital" at Hamhŭng in South Hamgyŏng province, Korea, and "Western Capital" at Lin-chiang in Chi-lin [see map p. 70].”

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