Citations:Che-kyang

English citations of Che-kyang

• 1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IV. FO-KYEN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 84:

  Fo-kyen is bounded by Che-kyang on the North, Kyang-ſi on the Weſt, Quang-tong on the South, and on the Eaſt by the Sea of China.

• 1780, “The Hiſtory of Jenghîz Khan's Succeſſors in Tartary and China”, in The Modern Part of an Univerſal History from the Earlieſt Accounts to the Preſent Time‎^[2], volume IV, page 307:

  The court was greatly alarmed at the reduction of Hang-chew-Fû, capital of Che-kyang, in July, by the troops of Tſu-chew-whey.

• 1840, The Ancient and Modern History of China‎^[3], →OCLC, page 22:

  Kaou-tsung II., who reigned over the southern provinces only, held his court at Hang-foo, in the province of Che-kyang: he endeavoured to drive back the Tatars, but was obliged to retreat, and make the most humiliating proposals to them, which made no impression upon the sturdy victors, who boldly refused to retire one inch, or to give up the captive emperor, or any of the family: all he gained, was the quiet possession of the southern empire, by paying an annual tribute.

• 1845, “China”, in Encyclopædia Metropolitana : or, Universal Dictionary of Knowledge‎^[4], volume XVI, London, →OCLC, page 552, column 2:

  VIII. Kyang-si, which lies between Che-kyang and Kwang-tong, and is itself separated from the sea by those Provinces and Fǒ-kyen, has thirteen Cantons and seventy-eight Districts and Townships.

• 1863, H. Cholmondeley-Pennell, “The Carp Family”, in The Angler-Naturalist: A Popular History of British Fresh-water Fish, with a Plain Explanation of the Rudiments of Ichthyology‎^[5], London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, page 116:

  China is still preeminent for its Goldfish, of which Pennant informs us that the most beautiful kinds, both for elegance of shape and richness of tinting, are taken in a small lake in the Province of Che-kyang.