Szepingkai
English
Proper noun
Szepingkai
- Synonym of Siping
- 1940, Rosalind Goforth, “Manchurian Mercies”, in Climbing: Memories of a Missionary's Wife, 3rd edition (Religion), Evangel Publishing House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 185:
- The city of Taonan, a most important center bordering on Mongolia, was reached from Szepingkai in about nine hours by express train. Our young colleague, the Rev. Allan Reoch, had been left in charge of the work there during the summer of 1938.
- 2014, Richard Bernstein, “From Hope to Antagonism”, in China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 378:
- Following the advice of his generals, Chiang did take the initiative after the fall of Changchun. His crack First Army moved up the railroad from Mukden to Szepingkai and retook Changchun on May 24, then headed farther north toward Harbin, the big city in northern Manchuria that was in Communist hands.
Further reading
- “Szepingkai”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Szepingkai”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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