Citations:Lake Tai

English citations of Lake Tai

1801, John Walker, The Universal Gazetteer‎^[1], 3rd edition, London, →OCLC, page [2]:
SOUTCHEOU, a city of the firſt rank, in the province of Kiangnan, in China, beautifully and agreeably ſituated on a river which communicates with the Lake Tai.
1939, Hsiao-tung (費孝通) Fei, 江村經濟 [Peasant Life in China]‎^[3], London: George Routledge and Sons, →OCLC, →OL, pages 9–10:
The village chosen for my investigation is called Kaihsienkung, locally pronounced kejiug’on. It is situated on the south-east bank of Lake Tai, in the lower course of the Yangtze River and about eighty miles west of Shanghai.
[1967, Lyn Harrington, “Sui—"The Son of a Talented Father Shows Talent"”, in The Grand Canal of China‎^[4], Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:
The prince had the two old canals of the Wu kings widened, deepened, and lined with rock. Then he extended the canal around Tai Hu, and south to the Chientang River.]
[1980, Arthur P. Wolf, Chieh-shan Huang, “Introduction”, in Marriage and Adoption in China, 1845-1945‎^[5], Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 8:
Since it is unlikely that these families averaged more than one unmarried son old enough to be matched with a t’ung-yang-hsi, these figures suggest that minor marriages accounted for approximately 20 percent of all first marriages. This was in 1931. Five years later the distinguished anthropologist Fei Hsiao-tung found approximately the same incidence of minor marriage in Kaihsienkung, a village on the shore of Lake T’ai in southern Kiangsu.]
2020 July 15, David Stanway, “Residents at China's giant lake unfazed as rainfall breaks records”, in Giles Elgood, editor, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 15 May 2022, Environment‎^[7]:
At Lake Tai on the border of the wealthy coastal provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, water levels hit 4.49 metres on Wednesday, 0.69 metres above the official warning level, according to government data. […]
Though still short of the 4.97-metre record set in 1999, Lake Tai is on the rise. Nearby Shanghai is already taking precautions, opening its sluice gates to discharge excess floodwaters.
2021 July 8, “Chinese port city uses boats, scoops to fight algae bloom”, in AP News‎^[8], archived from the original on 25 September 2021‎^[9]:
Qingdao has seen such outbreaks for at least 15 years, but never on this level. Similar blooms have occurred in inland waterways such as Lake Tai to the south of Qingdao in Jiangsu province.