Xibaipo

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 西柏坡 (Xībǎipō).

Proper noun

Xibaipo

1. A town in Pingshan, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, in northeastern China.
   • [1967, Franklin W. Houn, “The Final Conquest of Power: 1945-1949”, in A Short History of Chinese Communism‎^[1], Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 71:

     On April 22, 1948, P'eng Teh-huai's troops recovered Yenan. In May, Mao Tse-tung and the headquarters of the CCP Central Committee moved from northern Shensi to Hsipaipo Village, Pingshan Hsien, Hopei Province in anticipation of an early nationwide victory.]

   • [1977, Roxane Witke, “On the Road to Peking”, in Comrade Chiang Ch’ing‎^[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 217–218:

     On the eighteenth of April, Chou En-lai, who had been away on another mission, arrived at Hsi-pai-p’o, a small community a few miles northwest of the city of Shih-chia-chuang in Hopeh province. The Chairman did not join him there until the twenty-seventh of May, whereupon they settled into Hsi-pai-p’o for what turned out to be ten months. Then the Chairman moved on to their final destination, the ancient capital of Peking, less than two hundred miles to the northeast. At Hsi-pai-p’o the Chairman continued to write prolifically (on land reform, Party discipline, military strategy, and the KMT).]

   • 2021 May 25, Martin Pollard, “Chinese visit 'red' sites ahead of 100th Communist Party anniversary”, in Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 25 May 2021‎^[4]:

     In a square in front of a Communist Party memorial hall at Xibaipo in northern China, row upon row of party members stood, raised their fists and chanted the party oath in unison.[...]
     Xibaipo was an important Communist Party base during China's civil war, which ended in 1949 with the victorious communists sweeping to power.[...]
     Party researchers and officials told Reuters the large numbers of visitors at Xibaipo reflects a national push to get people, especially party members and cadres, to get involved with the upcoming anniversary.
     Schools are also taking part. At Xibaipo, in Hebei province, a large group of students was lined up, given small national flags and told to recite their Communist Youth League oaths, just as the senior party members were doing.

Translations

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 西柏坡 (Xībǎipō)

Further reading

• Xibaipo, Hsipaipo at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.