Citations:Tianjin

English citations of Tianjin

• [1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World‎^[1], 3rd edition, →OCLC, page 439:

  The Garizon Tiencin lies on the Bay Xang, it is a Port or Haven Town to Peklng and of a great Trade; and on the North-ſide lies the great Gariſon of Xanghaie on the Iſland Cue.]

• [1837 January, “Memorial of Heu Kew against the admission of opium : scarcity and present value of silver ; its exportation caused by the opium trade ; plan of stopping it ; illegalities and violence of foreigners ; and the necessity of their being checked.”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[2], volume V, number 9, Canton, →OCLC, page 401; republished as “Extracts from the Memorial of Heu Kew, sub-censor over the Military Department”, in A. S. Thelwall, editor, The Iniquities of the Opium Trade with China: Being a Development of the Main Causes which Exclude the Merchants of Great Britain from the Advantages of an Unrestricted Commercial Intercourse with that Vast Empire.‎^[3], 1839, →OCLC, page 86:

  From the great Ladrone island, at the entrance of the inner seas, to Kumsing Moon, there are all along various naval stations ; and to bring in foreign vessels there are pilots appointed ; so that it cannot be a difficult thing to keep a constant watch upon the ships. And even though from Fuhkeën and Chěkeäng, from the ports of Shanghae and Teëntsin, vessels should repair directly to the receiving ships to trade with them ; yet, situated as their anchorage is, in the inner seas, what is there to prevent such vessels from being observed and seized?]

• 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China‎^[4], New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:

  The vast majority of factories are state owned. We visited state-owned factories ranging in size from the one thousand six hundred-worker Dong Feng (“East Wind”) Watch Factory in Tianjin to the huge one hundred fifty thousand-worker Anshan Iron and Steel Company in the Northeast.

• 1985 July, “For travel planners, a July 1985 check list”, in Sunset‎^[5], volume 175, number 1, page 8:

  Watch or run in the fourth annual 42-kilometer Tianjin race on a 15-day tour starting October 23 in Beijing.