Kunming Lake

See also: K'un-ming Lake

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Etymology

Partial calque of Mandarin 昆明湖 (Kūnmíng Hú, literally “Kunming lake”).

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Kunming Lake

  1. A lake in Beijing, China, on the grounds of the Summer Palace.
    • 1974 July 17 [1974 July 16], “Chinese Take to Water To Mark Mao's Swim”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 September 2023, page 13‎[2]:
      At Peking's Kunming Lake, processions of people swam between lines of crowded, flag‐bedecked boats accompanied by martial music on loudspeakers.
  2. Synonym of Lake Dian.
    • 1946, Ta Chen, “The Beginnings of Modern Demography”, in Population in Modern China‎[3], Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:
      The Kunming plateau, 1,896 meters above the sea-level, contains lowlands of considerable size and is fairly well irrigated, especially the shore lands of Kunming Lake. For countless decades this region has been devoted to agriculture, and to this day it is considered generally typical of the agricultural regions in the southwest.

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