Huai river

See also: Huai River

English

Proper noun

Huai river

1. Alternative form of Huai River
   • 1895, Herbert J. Allen, “Ssŭma Chʻien's Historical Records”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

     The Huai river and the sea formed the boundaries of Yangchow.

   • 1952 January-February, Soong Ching Ling, “Welfare Work and World Peace”, in China Reconstructs‎^[2], volume 1, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

     In other sectors of our national life, giant and fundamental solutions have been undertaken for age-old problems, such as the floods with which the Huai river has plagued our people for thirty centuries.

   • 1969, Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China‎^[3], Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:

     In 1938 the great stream was deflected to the south by the Chinese in a misplaced effort to delay the advance of Japanese forces moving southward from T'ien-ching (Tientsin) and Pei-ching (Peking); and it flowed southeastward into the Huai river system and thence through a series of lakes and the Grand Canal down into the Yangtze drainage area.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Huai river.