Chapei

See also: chapei

English

Proper noun

Chapei

1. Dated form of Zhabei.
   • 1991, Harriet Sergeant, Shanghai‎^[1], London: John Murray, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 85:

     A gate and barbed-wire fence guarded the boundary between the International Settlement and the Chinese district of Chapei.

   • 2011, Nicola Tyrer, Stolen Childhoods: The Untold Story of the Children Interned by the Japanese in the Second World War‎^[2], Orion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

     Internees arriving at Chapei camp, in Shanghai, were welcomed by Commandant Tsurumi, who addressed them in similarly flowery language.

   • 2018, Paul French, City of Devils‎^[3], Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 234:

     Chapei is a total wasteland. Body parts are scattered about the cemetery where bombs have landed, uprooting the corpses from their flimsy paper-mache coffins. Beyond the cemetery walls just about anyone who can has gone, fled. Riley tramps east, across the ruins to Hongkew and the Northern External Roads, to Jukong Alley, back to the Trenches and then . . . where?

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chapei”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 372, column 1