Citations:Hsin-chiang

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English citations of Hsin-chiang

  • 1929, Owen Lattimore, The Desert Road to Turkestan[1], Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, page 8:
    His father, who died a few months, was the P'an Ta-jen of Sir Aurel Stein's books, the scholarly administrator by whose friendly interest his explorations were so well furthered. A scholar and a gentleman of the old tradition, and an able official who had had many high posts, he was beloved throughout the province of Hsin-chiang, where he was known as "P'an the Good."
  • [1944, Daniel Nelson, An English — Chinese Romanized Dictionary [英漢國語字典]‎[2], Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, →OCLC, page 291:
    Sinkiang 新疆 hsin¹ chiang¹]
  • 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China[3], Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 22:
    Aside from the Turfan depression in Hsin-chiang (Sinkiang) province, the hottest part of China lies in the middle and lower Yangtze Valley. Maximum temperatures of 43°-44°C (110°-112°F) have been recorded in Ch'ang-sha and Nan-ching.
  • 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building[4], Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:
    In the west, the outer periphery of the Inner Zone is the great divide separating Pacific Ocean and South China Sea drainage on the one hand, from drainage oriented towards Hsin-chiang in the northwest and towards the Indian Ocean in the southwest, on the other.
  • 1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings[5], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:
    The city will serve as the supply base of steel to Kan-su, Ch'ing-hai, and even Hsin-chiang for the various heavy construction projects.
  • 2009, “Asia”, in McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science & Technology[6], 6th edition, volume 1, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 187–188, column 2:
    The driest portions of Asia include the vast areas of southern Mongolia, Hsin-chiang, former Soviet Central Asia, and southwestern Asia.