Citations:Yanbian

English citations of Yanbian

• 1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China‎^[1], University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 124:

  Korean is spoken by a sizable minority in the North-eastern provinces. Yet forty-six percent of all Koreans in China, 540,000 people, live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous District along the Tumen river.

• 1980, Kim Il-sung, “Meeting with My Comrades-in-Arms in North Manchuria”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎^[2], volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 146:

  True to his words, a decision was adopted after the war by the Jilin Provincial Party Committee to build a monument in Jilin and Yanbian area to the Korean martyrs.

• 2014, David Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China‎^[3], Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 254:

  There are plenty of soldiers in the surrounding Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the official Chinese name for the region, mounting guard along the nearby border with the DPRK.[...]Yanbian, Yanji apart, is one of the least densely populated regions of China outside the high plateau of Tibet and the deserts of Xinjiang.

• 2015 April 30, Christopher Bodeen, “3 killed in Chinese town where North Koreans blamed in past”, in AP News‎^[4], archived from the original on 26 May 2022‎^[5]:

  Calls to Helong city and Yanbian prefecture government spokesmen rang unanswered on Thursday.

• 2019 June 17, “China says suspected blast caused minor quake near N. Korea”, in AP News‎^[6], archived from the original on 12 July 2022‎^[7]:

  China Earthquake Networks Center said Monday the magnitude 1.3 earthquake occurred in the evening in Hunchun. The city is in northeastern Jilin province’s Yanbian prefecture, known for its large ethnic Korean population, and borders North Korea and Russia.