Citations:Linjiang

English citations of Linjiang

• [1967 January, Tso-peng Li, “Three Campaigns to the South of the Sungari River”, in China Reconstructs‎^[1], volume XVI, number 1, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 3:

  In mid-December the enemy sent eight complete divisions to invade the Linchiang area, arrogantly blustering: "We will drive the Communists into the Yalu to bite at the ice. We will drive them up the Changpai Mountains to chew on the rocks."]

• [1973, William W. Whitson, Chen-hsia Huang, “The Fourth Field Army Elite”, in The Chinese High Command: A History of Communist Military Politics, 1927-71‎^[2], Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 306:

  Although the entire Communist force was driven back to the Korean border by early November, the commanders of the Fourth Column derived some satisfaction from their near destruction of the Nationalist 25th Division, after a fierce four-day battle at Hsin-k’ai-ling, west of K’uantien.* Moreover, their planned withdrawal to the vicinity of Linchiang in southwestern Kirin Province had diverted the Nationalists from exerting major pressure against Lin Piao’s main force at Harbin and Yüshu.]

• 1980 [1939 April 3], Il-sung Kim, “Let Us Continue to Strike Powerful Counterblows at the Japanese Imperialist Aggressors and Advance to the Homeland”, in Kim Il Sung Works‎^[3], volume 1, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 173:

  In view of the fact that the enemy was in hot pursuit and tried to encircle and attack us with huge forces in the comparatively narrow area southwest of Mt. Paektu, our units dealt blows to the enemy while moving round and round across many hills and valleys in the Changbai and Linjiang areas.

• 2018 April 12, Sue-Lin Wong, Damir Sagolj, “The Cold Frontier, Part Two: A journey along North Korea's edge”, in Sara Ledwith, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 09 September 2023, APAC‎^[5]:

  Linjiang has been called the region’s Las Vegas. My hotel room had a mirror above its queen-sized bed and an impressive variety of condoms on the bedside table.
  “Be careful here in Linjiang, it’s a dodgy border town,” said one local. “A lot of the smaller hotels double as brothels at night.”