Citations:Yung-an

English citations of Yung-an

• 1975, Federic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China‎^[1], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:

  From September 25, 1851 to April 5, 1852, the Taiping forces settled in at Yung-an, grouping themselves for the sweep north.

• 1983, Katherine Paterson, Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127:

  THE ATTACK had been brought to a standstill, but the enemy remained encircled about Yung-an. The Taiping were not afraid of the cannons or of the men behind them, but as weeks dragged on, they began to fear a more powerful enemy- the specter Want.

• 1991 [12th century CE], Patricia Buckley Ebrey, quoting Ssu-ma Kuang, “Combating Heterodoxy and Vulgarity in Weddings and Funerals”, in Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites‎^[3], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:

  I have heard that Your Majesty wishes to have the great burial on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month and that the court has sent its commissioner to supervise the tomb work. I do not know if a site has yet been chosen. Some say that there are plans to search widely outside of Yung-an county [where the previous Sung imperial tombs were located] for an auspicious site.