Banmendian

Proper noun

Banmendian

1. Synonym of Panmunjom: the Mandarin Chinese-derived name.
   • Another important qualification to the heroic images of the Chinese volunteers is the story of the Chinese POWs at the time of the "Big Switch" which began nine days after the signing of the truce at Banmendian (Panmunjom) on 27 July 1953 and lasted for a month.1992 Winter, Philip West, “The Korean War and the Criteria of Significance in Chinese Popular Culture”, in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, volume 1, number 4, Brill Publishers, →ISSN...
   • In the past, Japan invaded our country, and now many Japanese still have contacts with us. We have negotiated with Americans in Banmendian [Korea] for two years and in Geneva one year. I believe that we will achieve our goal.2007 [1956 August 21], Guangxiu Xu, quoting Mao Zedong, “Congressional China Policy and the Issue of Taiwan, 1953-1963”, in Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949-1979, University of Akron...

   Synonyms:

   Panmunjom