Yanji

Proper noun

Yanji

1. A county-level city of Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China.
   • The influx into the Chientao (間島) of Corean farmers, hunters, and trappers had long been a burning question before the Governments of China and Japan finally agreed by the Chientao Convention of 1909 or China-Corean Frontier Agreement to recognize the Tumen river as the boundary between Corea and...[1938, Stanley F. Wright, “From the Revision that Failed to the Peking Tariff Conference of 1925-1926”, in China's Struggle for Tariff Autonomy: 1843-1938, Paragon Book Gallery, →OCLC, page 406
   • In eastern Manchuria alone, there is a growing tendency to refuse to surrender among the army units stationed in Helong and Yanji; thousands of soldiers, in groups or individually, have already risen up in Wangqing, Antu and other districts.1980 [1931 December 16], Kim Il Sung, “On Organizing and Waging Armed Struggle Against Japanese Imperialism”, in Kim Il Sung Works, volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC...