Citations:Ting-yüan

English citations of Ting-yüan

1973, Yu-wen Jen, “Warfare in the Yangtze Valley (1856-1859)”, in The Taiping Revolutionary Movement‎^[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 345, 613:
During the summer, while Ch’en attacked Lai-an and Ch’u-chou, Wu left Lu-chou for an attack on Ting-yüan with the assistance of Nien chief Kung Te-shu.
Ting-yüan 定遠 (Anhwei), 339, 345-46
1980, Elizabeth J. Perry, “Protectors Turn Rebels: The Case of the Red Spears”, in Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945‎^[2], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 169:
For example, in 1928, after a Red Spear force succeeded in routing bandits from Anhwei’s Hsü-i and Ting-yüan counties, the brigands regrouped in nearby Hsüchou.
1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records‎^[3], volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:
When he reached Yin-ling 陰陵,²⁶⁵ he lost his way and asked an old farmer.[...]
²⁶⁵ A county northwest of modern Ting-yüan 定遠 County in Anhwei (Wang Li-ch'i, 7:182n.) about 25 miles east of modern Huai-nan 淮南 City (see also T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:19).

1923, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India‎^[4], volume XLVII, Calcutta, →OCLC, page 159:
In the neighbourhood of Ting-yüan Hsien, reddish and reddish-violet shales with thin quartzitic bands strike N.N.W.-S.S.B. and dip at from 45° to 50° in a westerly direction.
1938, Berthold Laufer, The American Plant Migration Part I: The Potato‎^[5], →OCLC, page 72:
In the subprefecture Ting-yüan *[定遠] in the prefecture of Han-chung *[漢中], Shensi Province, according to the local chronicle, "there are four varieties of potato- red, white, yellow, and black. It thrives in the high mountains; it is fond of dry places, but dreads water. It may be taken with rice or used as a vegetable."