Mu-tan-chiang

English

Map including MU-TAN-CHIANG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 牡丹江 (Mǔdānjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Mu³-tan¹-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Mu-tan-chiang

1. Alternative form of Mudanjiang
   • 1888, H. E. M. James, The Long White Mountain or A Journey in Manchuria‎^[2], Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 5:

     The principal rivers are the Yalu or Ai-chiang, the Tumen or Kaoli-chiang, the Sungari or Sung-hua-chiang, the Nonni, and the Hurka or Mu-tan-chiang.

   • 1965, Alexey Okladnikov, The Soviet Far East in Antiquity: An Archaeological and Historical Study of the Maritime Region of the U.S.S.R.‎^[3], University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 183:

     The balanced planning of the ancient city on the Mu-tan-chiang corresponds on the whole to the layout of the capital of the T'ang Dynasty, Ch'ang-an. The same street plans are found in the ancient capitals of Japan, Nara and Kyoto, built on the Chinese model.

   • 1978, Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia‎^[4], volume 20, H. S. Stuttman Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2701:

     The key to the front was the town of Mu-tan-chiang, where the Japanese 5th Army (Lieutenant-General N. Shimizu) had concentrated.

   • 2012, A. A. Evans, David Gibbons, The Illustrated Timeline of World War II‎^[5], New York: Rosen Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247:

     Aug 11-16, 1945 Russians take Mu-tan-chiang, key position in the east, after a see-saw battle

Translations

Mudanjiang — see Mudanjiang

Further reading

• “Mu-tan-chiang”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Mu-tan-chiang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• William H. Harris, Judith S. Levey, editors (1975), “Mu-tan-chiang or Mutankiang”, in The New Columbia Encyclopedia‎^[6], Fourth edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1868, column 1