Citations:Han-yang
English citations of Han-yang
- [1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 36:
- Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.]
- 1929, William Robson, Griffith John of Hankow (Bright Biographies Series)[2], Pickering & Inglis, →OCLC, page 64:
- Lying on the right bank of the Yang-tse, opposite the departmental city of Han-yang and near to Hankow, its walls are about ten miles in circumference, and its population is about four hundred thousand.
- 1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[3], volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1:
- Commercially, Wu-han (Hankow, Wu-ch'ang and Han-yang) municipality commands the gateway to the Szechwan basin in the west and to Hunan and Kweichow in the south and southwest. Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad. Across the Han river bridge from Hankow is the heavy-industry centre of Han-yang. From the latter runs the great bridge across the Yangtze joining Hankow and the provincial seat of Wu-ch'ang.
- 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)[5], Central Intelligence Agency, page 4:
- Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.