Citations:Liao-ch'eng

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English citations of Liao-ch'eng

Map including Liao-cheng (DMA, 1975)
  • 1962, Chung-li Chang, The Income of the Chinese Gentry[1], Seattle: University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 203:
    An Ch'ing-lan of Liao-ch'eng was a government student at an early age, but did not pass the provincial examination until many years later.
  • 1989, Yoshikawa Kōjirō, translated by John Timothy Wixted, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650[2], Lawrenceville, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:
    The following five-character regulated verse, one of two entitled "Twelfth Month, Sixth Day,"²⁸ was written by Yuan Hao-wen while under house arrest in Liao-chʻeng.
    The empire still full of arms,
    At this edge of the world, the year again renewed.
    The dragon has shifted, leaving fish and turtles lost;
    The sun eclipsed, unicorns are fighting.
    Brambles amid grasses, these desolate hills are snowy;
    In my old garden, mist and flowers mark the spring.
    Here in Liao-chʻeng, a moon out tonight,
    I feel disconsolate still away from home.