Citations:Kaifeng

English citations of Kaifeng

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• [1832 June [1818 October 18], “Ancient account of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers, who went to those parts in the 9th century”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 44:

  Had a conversation with a Mohammedan Gentleman, who informed me, that at Kae-fung Foo, in the province of Honan, there are a few families denominated the Teaou-kin-keaou, or ‘the sect that plucks out the sinew,’ from all the meat which they eat. They have a Le-pae-sze, or house of worship; and observe the eighth day as a Sabbath.]

• 1889, Willis Fletcher Johnson, chapter XXVIII, in History of the Johnstown Flood‎^[2], Edgewood Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 322:

  For several weeks preceding the actual overflow of its banks the Hoang-Ho had been swollen from its tributaries. It had been unusually wet and stormy in northwest China, and all the small streams were full and overflowing. The first break occurred in the province of Honan, of which the capital is Kaifeng, and the city next in importance is Ching or Cheng Chou. The latter is forty miles west of Kaifeng and a short distance above a bend in the Hoang-Ho.

• 1897, P. N. Tsü, “Historical Description of China”, in The Geography of the Chinese Empire‎^[3], Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC, page 9:

  The supposed founder of the Chinese monarchy was Fu-hsi [about 2852 B.C.], and his capital was Kaifeng, now the provincial city of Honan. The early inhabitants of China are said to have lived in this Province.

• 1905, “Foreign Mission Board Report”, in Annual of the Southern Baptist Convention 1905‎^[4], number 60, Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall & Bruce Company, page 149:

  Chengchow is on the Pehan (Peking-Hankow) railway, about fifteen miles south of the Yellow river, and about forty-five miles west of Kaifeng. This railway is being rapidly pushed to completion. Another railway is to be built from Kaifeng to Honanfu, which will have its junction with the Pehan railway at this place.

• 1913 November, “Far Eastern Railways”, in The Far Eastern Review‎^[5], volume X, number 6, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 234, column 3:

  Actual work has begun on the railway which is to link Kaifeng to the Tientsin-Pukow railway at Hsuchowfu and will bring Kaifeng within about two days of Shanghai, writes the Kaifeng correspondent of the C. C. Post on the 11th instant.

• 1921 February 17, Hendon M. Harris, “Annual Report Country Work for Year 1920”, in The Baptist Record‎^[6], volume XXIII, number 7, Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Baptist Convention, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:

  During the summer I attended as a speaker and teacher, a summer Conference north of the Yellow River, in which one of our brightest young Christians at Kaifeng felt the call to the ministry; he Is now studying for the ministry in Shantung University.

• 1929 June 1, “From the Chinese Press”, in The China Weekly Review‎^[7], volume XLIX, number 1, →OCLC, page 32, column 1:

  It is learned that Feng Yu-hsiang has decided to abandon Kaifeng and Chengchow and withdraw his army to the west of Fulikwan and Heishihkwan.

• 1938 June 18, “Profits on Slaughter”, in The Nation‎^[8], volume 146, number 25, New York, page 686:

  After months of blundering, caused by underestimating Chinese resistance, the Japanese have finally thrown their full force into the drive. Kaifeng has fallen and the vital city of Chengchow is endangered.

• 1939 January, Lin Yu, “"The China Incident"”, in Philippine Magazine‎^[9], volume XXXVI, number 1 (369), →OCLC, page 211:

  Kaifeng was raided by the Chinese twice, who remained there long enough to smash up the Japanese puppet organizations. They also dislodged the Japanese from the nearby town of Tunghsu and disrupted the Lung-Hai Railway, cutting the Japanese line of supply to Kaifeng.

• 1942, Violet Cressy-Marcks, “Waiting for the Moon”, in Journey Into China‎^[10], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 231:

  TO REACH THE city of Kaifeng from Sian, it was necessary to get on to the Lung-hai Railway.

• 1955, Vincent Cronin, “Adorers of the Cross”, in The Wise Man from the West‎^[11], London: Rupert Hart-Davis, →OCLC, page 221:

  Ricci learned that Ai was born in Honan province and now lived in Kaifeng, its capital.

• 1979 January 7, “Wang Kuang-mei in jail”, in Free China Weekly‎^[12], volume XX, number 1, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  Liu, who was purged in a power struggle with Mao Tse-tung during the “cultural revolution,” died of pneumonia while being sent to Kaifeng by train several years after he was struggled down, according to mainland reports.

• 1998, Donald Daniel Leslie, “Chinese Native Sources”, in Jews and Judaism in Traditional China: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Monumenta Serica Monograph Series)‎^[13], volume XLIV, Nettetal, Germany: Steyler Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:

  The local gazetteers of Xiangfu district, Kaifeng prefecture, and Henan province⁵ mention a surprisingly large number of Kaifeng Jews and their successes in Chinese society with dates.

• 2011 May 30, “Taiwan News Quick Take”, in Taipei Times‎^[14], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-06-02, Taiwan News, page 2‎^[15]:

  The animated scroll was based on the work of 12th century Sung Dynasty artist Zhang Zeduan (張擇端), whose lively portrayal of the daily life of ordinary people in the capital city of the Northern Sung Dynasty — Bianjing (Kaifeng) — has captured the fascination of people for generations.

• 2012 July 12, Joe McDonald, “China’s economic slowdown painful despite stimulus”, in AP News‎^[16], archived from the original on 18 May 2022‎^[17]:

  “A lot of people want to go work in big cities, but there is far less demand this year,” said a manager at the Tongxu County Enterprise Bureau, an employment service in the central city of Kaifeng in Henan province. He refused to give his name.