Pohai Sea

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Pohai Sea

  1. Alternative form of Bohai Sea
    • 1964, Yu-ti (任育地) Jen, “Land and People”, in 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China]‎[1], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:
      The entire Pohai Sea and Chiungchow Straits are China’s inland seas.
    • 2009, Bill Porter, “No Home”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China[2], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 79:
      The conductress woke me as we came out of the Taihang Mountains onto the endless expanse of the Yellow River floodplain (which makes up about two-thirds of the North China Plain):from Beijing in the north to Loyang in the south, from the Taihang Mountains in the west to the Pohai Sea in the east, nothing but mud.
    • 2017, Trish MacGregor, Rob MacGregor, “The Awesome Power of Nature”, in Sensing the Future: How to Tap Into Your Intuition and Read Signs From the Universe to Predict What's to Come[3] (Mind, Body & Spirit/Parapsychology/ESP), Page Street Publishing Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 89:
      Before the 7.4 quake on July 18, 1969, in the Pohai Sea on the coast of northern China, weird behavior was observed in “seagulls, sharks and five different species of fish.” Based on observations of unusual behavior of giant pandas, deer, yaks, loaches, tigers and other animals, a warning was issued at the Tientsin People’s Park zoo, two hours before the earthquake struck.