Citations:Chi-lin

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English citations of Chi-lin

Map including CHI-LIN (KIRIN) (AMS, 1967)
  • 1904, Charles Daniel Tenney, Geography of Asia[1], Macmillan and Co., page 23:
    Manchuria is crossed by the Chinese Eastern Railway (the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway), which enters the Hei-lung-chiang Province from the north-west and divides at Harbin (哈爾賓[sic – meaning 哈爾濱]) in the Chi-lin Province, one branch going to Vladivostock (海参威) and the other to Dalny and Port Arthur.
  • [1944, Daniel Nelson, An English — Chinese Romanized Dictionary [英漢國語字典]‎[2], Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, →OCLC, page 184:
    Kirin 吉林 chi² lin²]
  • 1965 July 15, “A Breed Geared Towards the Cold Climate of the North, the "Ch'ang-feng-hao"”, in Agricultural Development Sustained by Crop Improvement in China[3], sourced from Chugoku Sangyo Shashin Tsushih (Photos and Features on Chinese Industry), No 48, pp 1-9, page [4]:
    On coming home in 1936, Mr. Liao Ch'ang-yin (at present 29 years old), a senior high school student, member of the First Production xxxxxxx Team of the Hsin-hsing Production Brigade, Wan-pao People's Commune, An-t'u Hsien, Chi-lin province, devoted himself to the study of various wetfield rice breeds.
  • 1983, “Mass Media and Conflict Resolution: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor”, in Godwin C. Chu, Francis L.K. Hsu, editors, China's New Social Fabric[5], Kegan Paul International, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 188:
    Conflicts among the cadres themselves were numerous, suggesting contentions among different units of between higher and lower units. For instance, a letter from three cadres of a Chi-lin machine factory said that they had to receive and entertain all kinds of inspection groups during the years, leaving them little time to perform routine duties.
  • 1984, Ki-baik Lee, translated by Edward Willett Wagner, A New History of Korea[6], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 89-90:
    The capital of Parhae, called Sanggyŏng or "High Capital" was located at modern Tung-ching-ch'eng in Hei-lung-chiang province, Manchuria, and there were four secondary capitals- the "Central Capital" at modern Tun-hua in Chi-lin province, Manchuria, "Eastern Capital" at Hun-ch'un in Chi-lin, "Southern Capital" at Hamhŭng in South Hamgyŏng province, Korea, and "Western Capital" at Lin-chiang in Chi-lin [see map p. 70].
  • 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization[7], 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 436:
    To make up for the absence of a natural barrier the Ming had built a defence line which ran from west of the mouth of the Yalu at K'ai-p'ing, 300 kilometres north of Peking, and another from Shan-hai-kuan to Chi-lin (Kirin).