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Muling

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See also: muling and Mùlíng

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 穆稜 / 穆棱 (Mùlíng).

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Muling

  1. A county-level city in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang, China, formerly a county.
    • [1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 321:
      KMJP 7/3/72 carries a case from Mu-ling hsien, Heilungkiang, where peasants invited UYs to New Year’s feasts.]
    • 2008 [1935], Kim Il-sung, “With the Conviction of Independence”, in Kim Il Sung Works[2], volume 48, Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House, →OCLC, page 116:
      Love could not be won by the subjective desire and zeal of one side alone. Ri had expelled the girl who had broken his heart to Muling County and had had a love affair with another woman before coming to Wangqing.
    • 2009, Michael Newton, Hidden Animals: A Field Guide to Batsquatch, Chupacabra, and Other Elusive Creatures[3], Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 153:
      1902: During the Russo-Japanese war, soldiers reported sightings [of] a winged cave-dwelling dragon, 40 mi. from Muling, in Heilongjiang province.
    • 2014 December 29, “Evidence of 'missing link' in domestication of cats found in China”, in South China Morning Post[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 November 2020, China Insider‎[5]:
      A man in Muling, a city administered by Mudanjiang, has been arrested on suspicion of killing his father-in-law, who died after drinking wine containing poison, []

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