Chung-shan

See also: Chungshan

English

Map including 中山 (石岐) CHUNG-SHAN (SHEKKI) (AMS, 1954)

Etymology

From Mandarin 中山 (Zhōngshān), Wade–Giles romanization: Chung¹-shan¹.

Proper noun

Chung-shan

1. Alternative form of Zhongshan
   • 1966, George T. Yu, “Parties of Transition: The Hsing Chung Hui”, in Party Politics in Republican China: The Kuomintang, 1912-1924‎^[1], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 7–8:

     Sun Yat-sen was a product of both Western environment and traditional Chinese society. He was born on November 12, 1866, in the district of Hsiang-shan (since changed to Chung-shan), Kwangtung province, in southern China.

   • 1982, Thomas Lawton, Chinese Art of the Warring States Period‎^[2], Smithsonian Institution, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 21:

     Equally remarkable are the bronzes found in the tombs of the state of Chung-shan at P'ing-shan, Hopei Province.²¹ Chung-shan was one of the smaller peripheral states that contended for survival with Chao, Ch'i, Ch'in, Ch'u, Han, Wei, and Yen, the powerful states that dominated events during the Warring States period.²² The Chung-shan people traditionally are said to have been descended from the nomadic Pai-ti tribes, who are believed to have made incursions into the area of northern Shensi and northwestern Shansi as early as the eighth century B.C.²³ By the sixth century B.C. when the Pai-ti had settled in Hopei Province, they were referred to as the Hsien-yü.²⁴ In spite of several serious political reversals, the state of Chung-shan managed to exist side by side with its ambitious neighbors until 296 B.C. when it was defeated by the state of Chao.

   • 1988, Paul D. Buell, “The Museum And Traditional Asian Medicine: A Study in Collaboration”, in Caduceus‎^[3], volume IV, number 1, Southern Illinois University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41:

     The dominance of herbalists in the new, overseas Chinese health care system was a reflection of two perhaps fortuitous circumstances (besides, of course, the lucrative nature of the new "Golden Mountain" environment itself, which was bound to draw the interest of the commercial herbal practitioners of south China). The first was the predominance of herbal medicine as an extremely well-established and highly successful tradition in the geographical areas from which most Chinese migrants came, namely the Canton Delta. A second was the unique role played in early Chinese migration to the United States, and particularly to Canada, by merchants and other entrepreneurs and community leaders from the strategically placed Hsiung-shan (later Chung-shan) County.

Translations

Zhongshan — see Zhongshan

Further reading

• “Chung-shan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Chung-shan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.