Chung-nan-hai

English Alternative forms en Chungnanhai, en Chung Nan Hai proscribed Etymology The atonal en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 中南海 Zhōngnánhǎi. Proper noun 1 1 en obsolete en Zhongnanhai. en March 30, 1975 Red power struggle speeding up Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-03-30_16_12/ XVI 12 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1975-03-30_16_12/page/n2/ 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." en 1977 Roxane Witke Comrade Chiang Ching Chiang Chʻing https://archive.org/details/comradechiangchi00witk/ w:Little, Brown and Company 0-316-94900-0 77-935 2798518 4535170M 224 https://archive.org/details/comradechiangchi00witk/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). en 1978 Chih-yen Hsia Liang-lao Dee The Coldest Winter in Peking https://archive.org/details/coldestwinterinp00xiaz/ w:Garden City, New York w:Doubleday & Co. 0-385-13402-9 77-26522 1067816302 174 https://archive.org/details/coldestwinterinp00xiaz/page/174/ On the east bank of the lake in Chung-nan-hai stood an exquisite two-story building in the European style.