24 zig
Coordinates: 25 ° 49 ′ 6 ″ N , 105 ° 12 ′ 14 ″ E
The 24-zig (/ twənti'fõ zɪg /, from English zig-zag zigzag) is a winding mountain road in the southwest of the People's Republic of China , which was used in the Second Sino-Japanese War as a symbol of the efforts made by the American army in support of China , became known worldwide.
location
24-zig ( Chinese “二十 四 道 拐” 抗战 公路 , pinyin “Ershisi dao guai” kangzhan gonglu - “'twenty-four-curve' street” or 二十 四 道 弯 , Ershisi daowan and others) from the second Japanese-Chinese The war is in Qinglong County (晴隆 县; Pinyin : Qínglóng Xiàn) in the north of the Qianxinan Autonomous District of Bouyei and Miao , which is in turn in the southwest of the Chinese province of Guizhou in the triangle of Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangxi . For a long time after the war, it was assumed that the road was in Yunnan Province.
It is an extension of Ledostraße , which is also called Stilwell Road after the US General Joseph Stilwell .
The street has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-1050) since 2006 .
See also
Web links
- Historic '24 -zig 'Rediscovered on Stilwell Road - English
- Burma Road: The Road to re-discover ( Memento April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) - English
- “Ershisi dao guai” kangzhan gonglu - Chinese ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ BURMA ROAD: THE ROAD TO RE-DISCOVER ( Memento from April 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )