Chen Pao Island
English edit
Etymology edit
Partial calque of Mandarin 珍寶島／珍宝岛 (Zhēnbǎo Dǎo, literally “Chen Pao island”) via Wade-Giles romanization: Chên¹ Pao³ Tao³.
Proper noun edit
- Alternative form of Zhenbao Island
- Synonym: Chen Pao
- 1970 April 29 [1970 April 25], “Reportage on Shantung Mao Thought Activists Congress”, in Daily Report[1], number 83, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page C4[2]:
- Comrade (Fan Yu-kuo), a fighting hero of a certain PLA unit from the antirevisionist outpost of Chen Pao Island, spoke at the congress amid warm applause of those present.
- 1971, Richard A. Lupoff, “Is Dis Da Way to Fleegle Street?”, in Sacred Locomotive Flies[3], published 2015, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [4]:
- This question is directed at residents of North America; not that others are excluded, anybody anywhere in the world will probably have to make some geographical adjustments to the wording, but that's okay too, don't be afraid to mark up the book if you happen to live in Kabul, say, or Pinsk, or on Chen Pao Island. Sorry, make that Damanski. Chen Pao. Damanski! Chen Pao! Warmonger! Revisionist! Liar! Sellout! Yellow madman! White-eyed running dog!
- 1972, Seymour Topping, Journey Between Two Chinas[5], Harper & Row, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:
- Wang interjected: "We are preparing large exhibitions of art done by workers, peasants and soldiers in cooperation with the art teachers and students. Among them is one popular work entitled 'Never Stop Struggling as Long as You Are Alive.' It is a painting depicting the story of our heroic soldiers fighting the Soviet revisionist troops when they invaded Chen Pao Island on our frontier. Yes," Wang said enthusiastically, "a new upsurge in art is taking form."