Pingrang

See also: Píngrǎng

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 平壤 (Píngrǎng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pĭng′räng′
  • Hyphenation: Ping‧rang

Proper noun

Pingrang

  1. (rare) Synonym of Pyongyang: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name (capital of North Korea).
    • 1996 October, Allen Fung, “Testing the Self-Strengthening: The Chinese Army in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in Modern Asian Studies‎[2], volume 30, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 1017; republished as Kenneth Swope, editor, Warfare in China Since 1600‎[3], 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [4]:
      When the Japanese armies captured Pingrang on 15th September, they discovered that 35 good field guns were left behind, together with hundreds of magazine rifles and hundreds more of breechloaders. The amount of ammunition captured was also enormous.⁴⁷ If the spoils were already so substantial, the quantity of effective weapons the Chinese possessed in Pingrang was certainly impressive.
    • 1999, China Archaeology and Art Digest‎[5], volume 3, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 95, column 2:
      The later Gaogouli period begins with the move of the capital to the later Pingrang (Pyongyang) in 427 and later Pingrang became the centre of a group of urban complexes on the lower reaches of the Taedong river known as "the three cities and one palace", namely Pingrang-cheng, Huangcheng 黄城, Chang'an-cheng 長安城 and Anhe-gong 安鶴宫[palace]. The Pingrang-cheng city site has a circumference of 23 km and covers an area of 1,850,000 sq m. […] Gaogouli, when the capital was moved from Heshenggu city to the hinterland (Guonei 國内) and the construction of the capital Yunayancheng 尉那岩城 began, to the year 427, when the Changshou King 長壽王 moved the capital to Pingrang 平壤 (Pyongyang) on the Datong 大同 (Taedong) river.
    • 2014 April, Judith Fröhlich, “Pictures of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895”, in War in History‎[6], volume 21, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, pages 217, 233:
      China lost one battle after another. On land China lost at Pingrang (Pyongyang) in September 1894. […]
      For instance, an illustration in the Dianshizhai huabao shows the battle at the Datong river near Pingrang in September 1894 (Figure 6).
    • 2020 [2014], Bin Li, “Capital Liaison Office and Ancient Postal System”, in Communication, Civilization and China: Discovering the Tang Dynasty (618-907) [唐代文明与新闻传播]‎[7], →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 37–38:
      When this situation was going on, a general called Lai Huer who was prepared to attack Gaoli by water route from Pingrang came to rescue after he heard that Yang Xuangan attempted to attack the capital.
    • 2020, Chun-Bok Lee [이춘복], “A Study on the Changes of the Frontier Prefectures as Contact Zones in the Tang Dynasty: Expansion and Reduction of the Tang-Tibetan Bianzhou”, in Yong-ku Cha, editor, The Borderlands of China and Korea: Historical Changes in the Contact Zones of East Asia‎[8], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212:
      Andong Protectorate (安東都護府) which had been created in Gaogouli's capital Pingrang (平壤) was moved to Liaodong gucheng (遼東古城) in 676 and Xincheng (新城) in 677, and the governments-general of Xiongjin (熊津都督府, Xiongjin Dudufu) was moved to Jian'an gucheng (建安古城).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pingrang.

Usage notes

  • The rare Mandarin Chinese-derived term Pingrang usually would only appear when one of the core focuses of a work is related to China.

References

  1. ^ Blunden, Caroline (1998), “Gazetteer”, in Cultural Atlas of China‎[1], Revised edition, Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 232, 235: “Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription. […] Pingrang/P'ing-jang see Pyongyang”

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