Shop signs, road signs and official seals across Yanbian, in China's north-east, must carry both Korean and Chinese, and local rules say that when the two are set side by side the Korean comes first, or on top.
在中国东北的延边,店铺招牌、路牌与公章都必须同时使用朝鲜文和汉文;当地规定,两种文字并排书写时,朝鲜文排在前面或上方。
Yanbian Korean...
Two railway stations stood about two kilometres apart from 1907, one run by Russia and one by Japan, because the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth had divided control of the railway between the two empires at Changchun.
一九零七年起,有两座火车站相距约两公里,一座归俄国所有,一座归日本所有,原因是一九零五年的《朴茨茅斯条约》使这条铁路在长春由俄日两国分段控制。
Russia's Kuanchengzi station, built...
