Lung-ling

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 龍陵／龙陵 (Lónglíng), Wade–Giles romanization: Lung²-ling².

Proper noun

Lung-ling

1. Alternative form of Longling
   • 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 304:

     Most of the people have migrated from Lung-ling and to a lesser extent from T'eng-ch'ung. The people are simple and primitive, and the females all bind their feet.

   • 1987, Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War‎^[2], New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 564:

     The crossing of the Salween in mid-May was unopposed and Yoke Force made slow but steady progress until the Japanese counterattacked at Lung-ling and hopes ended of a breakthrough to Myitkyina from the east. By September, Chiang Kai-shek was threatening to pull Yoke Force back into China.

   • 2004, Gerald Astor, The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders, and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II‎^[3], John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333:

     Fearful that the Japanese forces at Lung-ling would mount a counterattack and eventually overrun the Chinese and cross the Salween River, the generalissimo added to the issues a request that the Chinese soldiers who fought at Myitkyina be redeployed to the Lung-ling front. Chiang could not order but only ask for these troops because once they entered Burma they were part of Mountbatten’s Southeast Asia Command.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lung-ling.