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Ssupingkai
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from en cmn - 四平街, using the dialectal pronunciation gāi for 街 -.
Proper noun
en dated en Siping.
en 1922 H. Stringer The Chinese Railway System https://archive.org/details/cu31924023644143/ Shanghai Kelly and Walsh, Limited 3874335 45 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023644143/page/n58/ The last-mentioned line in this category is a branch of the South Manchuria Railway running West from Ssupingkai. Judging from the amount of money lent for the construction and considering the temporary character of the bridgework, much of which is timber, construction under Japanese auspices is likely to prove costly.
en 1971 1951 Robert B. Rigg Red China's Fighting Heroes https://archive.org/details/redchinasfightin0000rigg/ Westport, Connecticut Greenwood Press, Publishers 0-8371-5634-3 70-138177 1001847473 37 https://archive.org/details/redchinasfightin0000rigg/page/37/ A believer in mobility, he has great contempt for fixed defenses. One of his first moves, after he captured Changchun, was to tear down all pillboxes, even though there was the threat that Nationalist armies would soon break the stalemate of Ssupingkai and converge on his newly won city—an event which did occur a month later.
en 1988 Jean-Paul Wiest Maryknoll in China: A History, 1918-1955 https://archive.org/details/maryknollinchina0000wies/ M. E. Sharpe, Inc. 0-87332-418-8 87-32068 837981550 357 https://archive.org/details/maryknollinchina0000wies/page/357/ Bishop Lane chose to remain, with Father Edward McGurkin as his companion, to symbolize Maryknoll’s desire to be with their people. They were sent to an internment camp in Ssupingkai where they were reunited with Father Armand Jacques, a Canadian Maryknoller who had been there since his arrest on December 1941. The three men stayed in the camp with other Canadian internees until the end of World War II.