Citations:Kalgan

English citations of Kalgan

• 1900, Archibald R. Colquhoun, The 'Overland' To China‎^[1], Harper & Brothers, page 121:

  It may here be mentioned that the traveller who obtains Russian official assistance can cover the distance between Moscow and Peking in thirty and a half days—that is to say, by rail to Irkutsk, ten and a half days; thence to Kiachta by the post-road, four days; Kiachta to Urga by post-road, three days; thence to Kalgan over the Gobi Desert in ten days, or even less; Kalgan to Peking in three days.

• 1913, Elizabeth Kendall, A Wayfarer in China: Impressions of a Trip Across West China and Mongolia‎^[2], Houghton Mifflin Company, pages 233-234:

  So you turn your back upon Peking, and the railway takes you to Kalgan on the edge of the great plateau. […] The Kalgan-Peking railway was the first thing of the kind constructed by the Chinese, and the engineer in chief, Chang-Tien-You, did the work so well (he was educated in America, one of the group that came in the early seventies) that he was later put in charge of the railway that was to be built from Canton northwards.

• 1914, Frank L. Brown, A Sunday School Tour of the Orient‎^[3], Doubleday, Page & Company, page 307:

  While the main party was at Peking, Dr. Wilbur went northward to visit the interesting and important mission station at Kalgan.
  Kalgan is one hundred and twenty miles to the northwest of Peking, and is reached by a Chinese government railroad, the first railroad built by a Chinese engineer.

• 1946, Mrs. S. Baker-Car, “Kalgan”, in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society‎^[4], volume 33, number 2, page 213:

  Just before my arrival in Kalgan a fête had been given by the Ter Wang, a Mongol Prince of Inner Mongolia.

• 1947 May 4 [1947 April], Frank Yu, “Terrorism in Chungli”, in Think Weekly‎^[5], number 51, Newark, NJ, page 1, column 3:

  It was a fine day in Chungli, a small town 30 miles northeast of Kalgan. The December weather was cold, about 20° below freezing, but the whole town was bathed in bright sunshine.

• 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920‎^[6], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

  On one occasion on a return journey from Shensi I came into Kalgan, a gate to the Great Wall of China, on Christmas Eve, with snow and temperatures below zero. The caravan was tired out from my days of pushing to arrive home for Christmas with Mrs. Hoover, and that proved impossible, for our retinue had to rest.