Citations:K'ai-feng

English citations of K'ai-feng

Map including K'AI-FENG (DMA, 1975)

• [1904, C. D. Tenney, “中國 [Zhōngguó, The Chinese Empire]”, in Geography of Asia‎^[1], New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 10:

  The capital, Kʻai-fêng Fu (開封府), is situated a few miles from the south bank of the Yellow River.]

• 1968, Herold Jacob Wiens, “K’AI-FENG”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 13, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187, column 1:

  K’ai-feng's position halfway between the Shantung and the Honan hills also placed it on the natural route between the Hopeh plain and the Yangtze valey. Its nodal situation favoured its choice as the capital of China for about 200 years during the Five Dynasties (A.D. 907-960) and the Northern Sung (960-1126) when it was known as Pien-liang. Later, K’ai-feng was the centre of imperial road systems and on the main highway running from Peking to Hankow and Kuei-lin in the south.

• 1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Spirit of Invention”, in The Horizon History of China‎^[3], New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155:

  An astronomical clock tower, built at K'ai-feng in the eleventh century under imperial orders, relied on a highly sophisticated combination of water-driven gears (seen at right center in the cutaway diagram above) to rotate an armillary sphere (under the thatched roof) and a celestial globe (located within the tower on the second floor).

• 1975, John Winthrop Haeger, editor, Crisis and Prosperity in Sung China‎^[4], Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 61–62:

  The eastern part of the city of K'ai-feng and is adjacent rural area was under the hsien of K'ai-feng; the western part and its adjacent rural area under that of Hsiang-fu (at first called Chün-i).

• 1978, Yasushi Inoue, translated by Jean Oda Moy, Tun-huang‎^[5], Kodansha International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xi:

  The main character, Chao Hsing-te, has gone to K'ai-feng to take his Palace Examination.

• 2011, Gary Schwartz, The Impulse Economy : Understanding Mobile Shoppers and What Makes Them Buy‎^[6], Atria Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:

  I was in China twenty years ago, filming a documentary on the last Chinese Jews of the old trading city K'ai-feng, located just south of Beijing.