Chung-nan-hai

English

Alternative forms

• Chungnanhai, Chung Nan Hai (proscribed)

Etymology

The atonal Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin 中南海 (Zhōngnánhǎi).

Proper noun

Chung-nan-hai

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Zhongnanhai
   • 1975 March 30, “Red power struggle speeding up”, in Free China Weekly‎^[1], volume XVI, number 12, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     To keep the “congress” proceedings secret, the observers said, the “deputies” picked up from “districts” and “units” on China mainland all gathered at Chung-nan-hai, a district where Mao Tse-tung usually resides. They went to the “People’s Hall” through a tunnel. After the “congress”, they came out through the same underground passage. Foreigners, including reporters living in Peiping could see the “People’s Hall” lit up at night during the meeting, but found no buses and sedans parked around the "hall". The truth was not bared to the world until after the regime itself issued the news on the "congress."

   • 1977, Roxane Witke, Comrade Chiang Chʻing‎^[2], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 224:

     When the Chairman, Chiang Ch'ing, and some leading comrades and their troops descended upon Peking in March 1949 and took possession of its center point, the Imperial City, they appropriated for their own use the western section bounded by the central and southern lakes called Chung-nan-hai (literally, Central and Southern Sea).

   • 1978, Chih-yen Hsia, translated by Liang-lao Dee, The Coldest Winter in Peking‎^[3], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174:

     On the east bank of the lake in Chung-nan-hai stood an exquisite two-story building in the European style.