Changkufeng en · PROPN
Etymology
From Mandarin 張鼓峰 /张鼓峰 Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-ku³-fêng¹.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of Zhanggufeng.
alt of Zhanggufeng
184. Embassy's telegram 181.9 Japanese Embassy here states that the incident was caused by some 40 soldiers undertaking military operations on July 11 within Manchurian territory at a point southeast of Vladivostock near Changkufeng.
1938, Alexander Kirk, Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers, 1938, The Far East, Volume III, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State, page 456:"After the Japanese detachment on July 29 was dislodged from the Bezymiannaya Hill which it has seized, the Japanese concentrated troops, up to one division is^([sic – meaning in]) strength, in front of the Zaozernaya (Changkufeng) Hill located in the Soviet territory). In the night of July 31, at three o'clock, Japanese troops under the cover of artillery fire, suddenly attacked the Soviet frontier patrol and pushed it back from the Zaozernaya Hill.
1938 August 6, “The Tinder-Box Changkufeng”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 85, number 10, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:Japanese troops succeeded in capturing the main hills called Zaozernaia (Chinese name: Changkufeng) and Bezymiannaia (Chinese name: Shachaofeng). […] Units of the 40th Division of the Red Army came out to the Eastern slopes of the Zaozernaia Hill.
2020, “The History of Artillery from 1918 up to June 1941”, in Military-Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps, Saint Petersburg, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2026:The immediate background of the Changkufeng incident was the growing hostility between Japan and Soviet Russia over the Japanese invasion of China-Manchuria in 1931.
1960, Martin Blumenson, “The Soviet Power Play at Changkufeng”, in World Politics, volume 12, number 2, page 250 of 249–263:Attached to the map are the signatures and seals of the Chinese and Russian representatives who, on June 26, 1886, signed the so-called Hunchung Agreement, which clearly places the hill Zaozernaya (or Changkufeng) in Russian territory.
1938 October, John Garnett, “Far Eastern "Incident"”, in Soviet Russia Today, volume 7, number 7, New York, N.Y.: S. R. T. Publications, Inc., →OCLC, page 17, column 1:Today we are exactly informed that the question of the robbery of Zaozernaia Hill (Changkufeng), that is, the whole question of the events in the Lake Khasan region, was actually not decided in Tokyo at all, but in another place, somewhere in Europe, probably in Berlin.
1991, Viacheslav Molotov, “Viacheslav Molotov’s Speech Reflects Return to Revolutionary Rhetoric Capitalist Encirclement and Imminent Imperialist War. 8 November 1938”, in Alex G. Cummins, editor, Documents of Soviet History, volume 8 (Road to War, 1938-1940), Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, →ISBN, page 118: