Citations:Pearl River

English citations of Pearl River

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• 1843 January, “Journal of Occurrences : dispatches from Kiying : arrival of I'lipu ; shipwrecked Japanese”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume XII, number 1, Canton, page 56:

  Pirates have of late become so bold and murderous in their attacks upon the small sailing craft found in the delta of the Pearl river, and the islands interjacent, as to arouse the Chinese government to take strong measures to suppress and disperse them.

• 1879 [1877 March 1], Anna Brassey, “To Canton Up the Pearl River”, in A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam': Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months‎^[2], 6th edition, Toronto: Rose-Belford Publishing, →OCLC, pages 380–381:

  About one o'clock we reached Whampoa, the leading port of Canton. The Pearl River is too shallow for large steamers to go up any higher ; so we stopped here only a few minutes to disembark some of the Chinese passengers, and from this point the interesting part of the voyage began.

• 1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968‎^[3], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 132:

  The task of directing thousands of pushcarts and tiny handicraft shops and millions of tiny farms and of controlling the flow of crucial supplies created headaches for officials everywhere and the Pearl River Delta area was justly famous for the flowering of tiny enterprises.

• 1976 April 25, L. Chen, “Mao's word is unanimous vote?”, in Free China Weekly‎^[4], volume XVII, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  A Chinese-language broadcast from Moscow said the Tienanmen crowds were indeed against Mao but the burning of vehicles and building was started by the Maoists to provide themselves with excuses for stepped-up suppression.
  We don’t know whether this was the case, but we have learned that some 50,000 Peiping students have been sent to rural and frontier areas since the incident, that corpses have been floating down the Pearl River from Canton, and that the Maoists have been crying out savagely.

• 1988 [1984], “Factors Affecting Production”, in Sun Jingzhi, editor, The Economic Geography of China‎^[5], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 12:

  The Chang Jiang and Zhu Jiang (Pearl river) valleys in the south comprise only 24 per cent of the country's total area, but their surface run-off covers as much as 52 per cent of the total area.

• 2013 February 26, Natascha Küter, “Fighting pollution”, in Sonia Phalnikar, editor, Deutsche Welle‎^[6], archived from the original on 23 April 2016‎^[7]:

  But there are signs of progress - take Guangzhou, for example. Located on the Pearl River in southern China, the city is an important manufacturing hub for everything from textiles to high-tech electronics and auto parts.

• 2016, Bill Lascher, “"Why Should I Contribute a Little More Trash?"”, in Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two World War II Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific‎^[8], 1st edition, William Morrow, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:

  Once their boat reached Tai Hong Kwong, a village alongside a sharp bend in the Pearl River north of Kweiping (Guiping), Ka Yik led his American friends down the muddy, narrow streets to a shop belonging to his father.

• 2021 November 19, Beijing Newsroom, “China Evergrande resumes construction on 63 projects in Pearl River delta”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 19 November 2021‎^[10]:

  Debt-laden real estate developer China Evergrande (3333.HK) has resumed construction of 63 projects in the southern Pearl River delta, a regional subsidiary said on Friday.

• 2022 June 20, “China's Pearl River region braces for major floods”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[11], archived from the original on 20 June 2022‎^[12]:

  Flood control authority in south China's Pearl River basin activated a Level-II emergency response on Monday as persistent heavy rain over the past week has swollen rivers that could cause major floods in the region.
  The Pearl River flood control and drought relief headquarters has also sent three work teams to Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to assist with local flood-control efforts.
  China has a four-tier flood-control emergency response system, with level I being the most urgent and severe.
  Recent downpours in the Pearl River basin have led to the continuous rise of water levels of its main rivers, including the Xijiang and Beijiang rivers.