Yangjingbang

See also: Yángjīngbāng

English

Alternative forms

• Yang-king-pang

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 洋涇浜／洋泾浜 (Yángjīngbāng).

Proper noun

Yangjingbang

1. (historical) A former tributary of the Huangpu, Shanghai, China.

   Holonym: Shanghai

   • 1985, Jia You, “GENERAL ASPECTS OF STREET-LANES IN SHANGHAI”, in Min Dayong, transl., Anecdotes of Old Shanghai‎^[1], 1st edition, Shanghai Cultural Publishing House, →OCLC, page 137:

     Some of the famous inns like the Taian Inn and the Qianyi Inn located in the Jiaji Long (lane) to the north of Yangjingbang (the present Yanan Road, East) started their business in a lane.

   • [1990, Harriet Sergeant, “A Simple Equation – The Rise of a Great City”, in Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

     The French Concession lay between the walled Chinese city and Yang-ching-pang Creek, later filled in and called Edward VII Avenue. The British Settlement stretched from Yang-ching-pang to Soochow Creek while the American settlement consisted of a piece of land fronting the river to the north-east of Soochow Creek.]

   • 1999, Hanchao Lu, “Going to Shanghai”, in Beyond the Neon Lights: Everyday Shanghai in the Early Twentieth Century‎^[3], University of California Press, published 2004, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

     Rows of simply constructed, single-story wooden houses appeared literally overnight along the Bund, in the northwest part of the British Settlement, as well as on the banks of Yangjingbang, the creek that separated the British and French settlements.

   • [2013, Paul Mooney, Peter Hibbard, “Getting Around Shanghai”, in Beijing & Shanghai: China's Hottest Cities‎^[4], Odyssey Books & Maps, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 338:

     By 1848 this boundary had been pushed westwards to today’s Central Tibet Road (formerly known as Defence Creek) and bounded by Suzhou Creek to the north and by the Yangkingpang Creek (today’s East Yan’an Road) to the south. The British were adamant about keeping their +70-acre area free of Chinese residents.]

Translations

tributary

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 洋涇浜／洋泾浜 (zh) (Yángjīngbāng)

• French: Yangjingbang
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

French

Alternative forms

• Yang-King-Pang (obsolete)

Proper noun

Yangjingbang m

1. (historical) the Yangjingbang (former river in Shanghai)

   Holonym: Shanghaï

See also

• Huangpu