Dongning

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 東寧 / 东宁 (Dōngníng).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔŋ.nɪŋ/, /dɒŋ-/

Proper noun

Dongning

1. A county-level city in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.
   • [1959, Peter S. H. Tang, “Consequences of Soviet Railway Policy”, in Russian and Soviet Policy in Manchuria and Outer Mongolia, 1911-1931‎^[1], Duke University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 223:

     At the same time, according to official information, fighting occurred on the night of August 17, at Tungning,¹²⁹ south of Suifenho. Tungning was then occupied by Soviet troops possibly “consisting of Koreans, Buriats and Magyars” as front-line formations.¹³⁰]

   • [1969, Charles Alexander Leonard, “Pioneering on the Chinese Frontiers”, in Repaid a Hundredfold‎^[2], Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 102–103:

     Tungning, one of the most isolated towns in all Manchuria, is four hundred miles east of Harbin. To get there, I went by rail to the border town Progranichnaya, where the Chinese Eastern Railway enters eastern Russia (Siberia), then traveled sixty miles south through wild mountains on the Manchuria-Siberia border, a journey of one day by bus or two days by Russian wagon. […]
     At Tungning we found a well-to-do Christian who was the leading carpenter of the town. He was known by all as a believer. Although the population of Tungning was large (40,000), no one knew of any missionary or other Christian worker having ever been there. They did know of some Korean Christians in a village nearby. Tungning was a real frontier town, and the only one in all China where we had seen no heathen temple.]

   • 2020 December 13, “Asia Today: Japan, S.Korea set new daily records, mull steps”, in AP News‎^[3], archived from the original on 13 December 2020‎^[4]:

     Chinese authorities have locked down an area of more than 250,000 people after half a dozen coronavirus cases were confirmed near the Russian border in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Checkpoints have been set up in Dongning and Suifenhe, and people were told not to leave unless necessary. Bus service has been suspended, schools closed and production halted at factories not making daily necessities. Restaurants were told to stop dine-in service and residential communities to control entry. Four cases have been confirmed since Thursday in Suifenhe and two in Dongning.

   • 2021 November 30, Roxanne Liu, Gabriel Crossley, Beijing Newsroom, “Two Chinese border cities limit rail imports amid COVID outbreak in the north”, in Christopher Cushing, Edwina Gibbs, editors, Reuters‎^[5], archived from the original on 30 November 2021, Commodities‎^[6]:

     The northeastern cities Huichun^{[sic – meaning Hunchun]} and Dongning, both along the border with Russia, have suspended from mid-November some non-essential imports by highways, such as wine, milk and chocolate, to reduce infection risks.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東寧 / 东宁 (zh) (Dōngníng)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Dongning”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1044, column 1