Changle

• Changlo, Ch'ang-lo (Wade–Giles)
• Diongloh (Postal Romanization)

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 長樂 / 长乐 (Chánglè).

• IPA^(key): /(ˈ)t͡ʃæŋ(ˈ)lʌ/, /t͡ʃɑŋ-/
• enPR: chängʹlǔʹ^[1]
• Hyphenation: Chang‧le

Changle

1. A district of Fuzhou, Fujian, China; a former county of Fujian, China.
   • [1945 May 22 [1945 May 21], Spencer Moosa, “Chinese Take Railhead as Japs Retire”, in Hope Star‎^[2], Hope, Ark., sourced from Chungking (AP), →OCLC, page 6, column 7:

     Diongloh, a small port on the Min river 15 miles southeast of Foochow, fell to Chinese troops on Saturday. […] Approximately 200 Japanese who tried to make a stand at Diongloh were wiped out, the Chinese said.]

   • 2008, Sheldon X. Zhang, Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations‎^[3], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 31:

     Such an informal recruitment process seems to give just about anybody with the right connections or in the right social circles the opportunity to enter the business. Such was the story of a teacher in Changle County who became involved in the business because her husband was without a stable job at one point.

   • 2023 January 12, Megha Rajagopalan, William K. Rashbaum, “With F.B.I. Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight Over Chinese Police Outposts”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 January 2023, Europe‎^[5]:

     The New York outpost, which was set up by the city of Fuzhou, is based in the offices of a Chinese community organization, the America Changle Association NY, according to the state-run China Youth Daily, which last year published a document listing various police outposts. Changle is a district in the city of Fuzhou. The article has since been deleted.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Changle.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Diongloh”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 516, column 1
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Changle”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 725, column 3