Citations:Szechuan

English citations of Szechuan

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• 1913, Ernest Henry Wilson, A Naturalist In Western China, With Vasculum, Camera, And Gun: Being Some Account of Eleven Years' Travel, Exploration, and Observation in the More Remote Parts of the Flowery Kingdom‎^[1], volume I, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., page 104:

  THE plain of Chengtu is the only large expanse of level ground in the great province of Szechuan; it is also one of the richest, most fertile, and thickly populated areas in the whole of China.

• [1919, John C. Ferguson, Outlines of Chinese Art‎^[2], Chicago: University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 116:

  There is a portrait of Confucius at Chʻü-fu attributed to Wu and another striking picture representing the struggle of a tortoise with a serpent, kuei she tʻu, which is in the Prefect's official residence at Chʻêng-tu, Sze-chʻuan.]

• 1931 February 27, Christian Science Monitor, quotee, “China's Unknown Peaks Explored”, in The Gateway‎^[3], volume XXI, number 16, University of Alberta, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4:

  The expedition, which is under the leadership of Arnold Heim, German natural scientist, and Karl Krejel-Graf, has made its headquarters at K’ang-ting, capital of Szechuan, and is surveying the ranges which stretch 800 miles westward to Batang.

• 1967, Dennis J. Doolin, Charles P. Ridley, THE GENESIS OF A MODEL CITIZEN IN COMMUNIST CHINA: TRANSLATION AND ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHINESE COMMUNIST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL READERS‎^[4], Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, page 476:

  Li Po is also the author of this poem. Pai-ti is on a mountain in eastern Feng-chieh county in Szechuan Province.

• 1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71]‎^[5], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 25:

  The highway is one that was built to enable the Chiang Kai-shek government to evacuate to Chungking in the War of Resistance days, and Huayuan, our objective, is a county town in the middle of a high mountain plateau, only 25 kilometres from the Szechuan border.

• 1980, Ch'ien Tuan-sheng, edited by Harold C. Hinton, How the People's Government Works, 1952 (The People's Republic of China 1949-1979)‎^[6], volume 1, Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources Inc., →ISBN, page 58:

  In far-off southern Szechuan province last summer, while helping the peasants to effect the land reform, I saw group after group of young peasants, men and women, volunteer to help the aggressors away from our border and help neighboring Korea.

• 1981 March 22, “Chinese opera delights audience at international arts festival”, in Free China Weekly‎^[7], volume XXII, number 11, Taipei, page 2:

  Szechuan Province in southeastern China is well endowed with natural resources, fine landscapes and a long rich history. In early times, the several states which made Szechuan their home produced a line of famous generals whose lives have become the subject of myth, literary works and operas. Szechuan opera is one of the most classical of all Chinese opera styles.

• 2003, Brian Herbert, “Xanadu”, in Dreamer of Dune‎^[8], New York: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:

  Mom had been taking Szechuan Chinese cooking lessons in a class sponsored by a restaurant in Bellevue, a Seattle suburb. One evening my parents held a dinner party there for friends and family. We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style.

• 2003 October 5, Corinne LaBalme, “WHAT'S DOING IN; Paris”, in The New York Times‎^[9], archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Travel‎^[10]:

  But long before that, Parisians will have had ample chance to familiarize themselves with Chinese culture. From Oct. 14 to Jan. 28, the Hôtel de Ville, […] showcases recent Bronze Age excavations in the Szechuan Province, in western China, including artifacts from the Jinsha site (1200-1000 B.C.) discovered in February 2001.

• 2012, Saul David, editor, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Warfare‎^[11], Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 283:

  Despite this aerial assistance, the Chinese were again forced to withdraw westward, this time to Chongqing in the mountains of Szechuan.