Definition of "Chungnanhai"
Chungnanhai
proper noun
Alternative form of Chung-nan-hai.
Quotations
March 8, 1952, International Working Women’s Day, was an unforgettable day for me. We, the first women fliers of new China, flew in formation over Tien An Men to be reviewed by the Chinese people’s great leader Chairman Mao. Later he received us in Chungnanhai and posed for a picture with us.
1975 March, Hsiu-mei Wu, “Taking to the Skies”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIV, number 3, Peking, page 11, column 1
Shincho said words were intercepted that Chiang Ching was asking these four men, one at a time, to meet her at the guest house for foreign visitors in Peiping’s Chungnanhai (South Central Sea) district where Mao lives.
1976 August 22, “Chiang Ching vs. four young men?”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, page 3
Before leaving we were received by Premier Chou in Chungnanhai, the Central People’s Government offices.[...]IN SUMMER 1957 at the beginning of the anti-Rightist campaign the Premier called a meeting with people in literature and art, again in Chungnanhai.
1978 January, Pa Chin, “My Memories of Chou En-lai”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXVII, number 1, Peking, pages 24–25
Liu’s person and his public meaning became completely estranged: the former was cut off from the instruments of policy and sequestered in his official residence at Chungnanhai, but the other “Liu” became the animating spirit of opposition against which the GPCR was waged, and indeed proved so dauntless and resourceful an opponent that he could be vanquished only after two years of fierce “struggle.”
1998, Lowell Dittmer, Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, M.E. Sharpe, page 5