Citations:Yangtze
English citations of Yangtze
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- [1625, Samuel Purchas, Pvrchas His Pilgrimes[1], volume III, London, →OCLC, page 340:
- That Riuer of Nanquin which I called (Yamſu or) Ianſu, the ſonne of the Sea, goeth Northward to Nanquin, and then returning ſomewhat Southward, runneth into the Sea with great force; fortie myles from which it paſſeth by Nanquin. And that from hence to Pequin there might bee paſſage by Riuers, the Kings of China haue deriued a large Channell from this to another Riuer, called the Yellow Riuer, ſuch being the colour of that troubled water. This is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it.]
- [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[2], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 36:
- Keangsoo is easy of approach ; but, though the two largest rivers of China, the Yellow river, and the Yang-tsze-keang, both disembogue themselves into the sea within its confines, yet it possesses but one good port, which is Shang-hae-Heen, near the frontiers of Chekeang.]
- [1833 [1832 June], Le Mingche Tsinglae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neën 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[3], 2nd edition, volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 36:
- Keängsoo is easy of approach : but though the two largest rivers of China, the Yellow river, and the Yangtsze keäng, both disembogue themselves into the sea within its confines, yet it possesses but one good port, which is Shanghae heën, near the frontiers of Chekeäng.]
- 1853 December 8, Humphrey Marshall, Documents Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with Other Countries[4], number 37, Macao: A.O.P. Nicholson, published 1854, →OCLC, pages 323–324:
- You will perceive that the British and French commissioners ascend the Yangtze at pleasure, and have the steamers of their respective countries at their disposal. I was compelled, for the want of other conveyance, to come hither in a little British steamer which plies between Shanghai and Hong Kong.
- 1887 [1886 October 19], G. T. Bedell, Thomas H. Vail, B. W. Morris, Geo. F. Seymour, Wm. J. Boone, “Fourteenth Day's Proceedings”, in Journal of the Proceedings of the Bishops, Clergy, and Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America[5], Chicago, page 99:
- The Bishop of Shanghai desires that the bounds of his jurisdiction shall be more clearly expressed, and that therefore his title shall hereafter be, "The Bishop of Shanghai, having jurisdiction in the lower valley of Yangtze." The jurisdiction will be sufficiently large. The Yangtze River is three thousand miles in length, and the population on its borders numbers one hundred millions. As there are already three Bishops of the Church of England, with a large Missionary force of English Clergy, in that empire, Bishop Boone desires that his jurisdiction be limited to the population on the lower Yangtze, a line of eight hundred miles.
- 1900, Isabella L. Bird, The Yangtze Valley and Beyond[6], volume 1, pages 9-10:
- It is not till the Yangtze reaches Sha-shih that its character completely changes. The first note of change is a great embankment, thirty feet high, which protects the region from inundation. Below Sha-shih the vast river becomes mixed up with a network of lakes and rivers, connected by canals, the area of the important Tungting Lake being over 2000 square miles.
- 1916 May, F. Kingdon Ward, “Further Geological Notes on the Land of Deep Corrosions”, in The Geological Magazine[7], number 623, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 211:
- It is much more likely that the Chin-sha-chiang (reserving this name for the southward-flowing upper portion of the Yangtze) did actually continue southwards past Likiang, being subsequently beheaded by the upper course of the eastward-flowing portion cutting back westwards; the southern portion of the Chin-sha-chiang, being thus isolated from its source, ultimately disappearing.
- 1918, J.S. Lee, The Geology of China[8], University of Birmingham, →OCLC, page 320:
- Of the northernmost one of these folds, the writer has some faint recollection of seeing the folded strata. They form the hills to the west of Han-yung and the central ridge across the city of Wu-chang and extends further east; the west-easterly course of the Yang-tze below Yang-lo (lat. 30° 30' N.) is in all probability determined by this E-W fold.
- 1922, Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China[9], London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:
- North and South China are divided by the Yangtze; East and West China are divided by the route from Peking to Canton. These two dividing lines meet at Hankow, which has long been an important strategical point in Chinese history.
- 1943 May 11 [1943 May 10], “CHINESE STILL FIRM ON TUNGTING SHORES; Japanese Said to Have Made No Decisive Gains in Day”, in The New York Times[10], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 November 2023, page 8[11]:
- The Chinese High Command announced tonight that fighting was continuing on the north shore of Tungting Lake, in Northern Hunan, and south of the Yangtze River, in Southern Hupeh, where the Japanese scored no decisive successes during the past twenty-four hours. Enemy attempts to land on the south shore of Tungting Lake again were repulsed.
- 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 5, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope[12], volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 61:
- North China was controlled by the Communists and Manchuria by the Russians. There had been no roots of any kind of central Chinese government north of the Yangtze River.
- 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Beginnings (1924-1927)”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy[13], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 42–43:
- The first task was to clear the Hunan province of all hostile forces so as to make it possible for the various armies to converge on Wuhan area, including Wuchang, Hankow and Hanyang on the Yangtze.
- 1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica[14], volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 344, column 2:
- The magnificent natural waterways united in the drainage of the Yangtze river give to the port at its outlet to the Pacific a vast commercial hinterland producing a great range of commodities and a large consumer market of about 200,000,000 inhabitants.
- 1969, Yi-Fu Tuan, China[15], Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, page 22:
- Aside from the Turfan depression in Hsin-chiang (Sinkiang) province, the hottest part of China lies in the middle and lower Yangtze Valley. Maximum temperatures of 43°-44°C (110°-112°F) have been recorded in Ch'ang-sha and Nan-ching.
- 1969, C. P. Fitzgerald, “The Three Ways”, in The Horizon History of China[16], New York: American Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 113, column 2:
- Although human sacrifice was discontinued in ancient times, the idea continues that the river god claims as his own any man who falls into the stream. Boatmen are often afraid to rescue such unfortunates, believing that the god, cheated of his sacrifice, would claim them as a substitute. It may well be that Chairman Mao Tse-tung is deliberately trying to break down this ancient superstition with his much-publicized swims in the Yangtze.
- 1974, John H. Winkelman, The Imperial Library in Southern Sung China, 1127-1279 : A Study of the Organization and Operation of the Scholarly Agencies of the Central Government[17], page 12:
- Early in the summer of 1127 the emperor was located near the city of Nan-ching just south of the Yangtze River.
- 1982 January 3, “News Stories of Year on Peiping Selected”, in Free China Weekly[18], volume XXIII, number 1, Taipei, page 3:
- The Chinese Communists destroyed natural resources by widening the Yangtze River, and brought natural disasters to the mainland, including the worst floods in Szechwan province and other areas.
- 1992 [1949 August 4], Xiaoping Deng, “From the Crossing of the Yangtze to the Capture of Shanghai”, in Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping[20], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 138:
- All our troops successfully crossed the Yangtze along the long battle line of more than 500 kilometres. Before launching the battle, we gave the reactionary Nanjing Kuomintang government one last chance to reconsider.
- 2012 [1997 November 8], Zemin Jiang, “Make the Three Gorges Project a World-Class Project”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin[21], volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69:
- The Yangtze River basin is one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, and a rich and splendid cultural heritage remains in the reservoir region.
- 2013 August 13, Chris Luo, “Man, 70, deemed murderer by court after killing sick wife in euthanasia case”, in South China Morning Post[22], archived from the original on 26 September 2013:
- When an elderly Wuhan man in a wheelchair pushed his sick wife into the Yangtze River and killed her on her request, he never thought he would be a murderer.
- 2014 [2013 May 4], Jinping Xi, “Realize Youthful Dreams”, in The Governance of China[23], volume I, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [24]:
- Looking ahead, we can see that our younger generation has a promising future, and will accomplish much. It is a law of history that “the waves of the Yangtze River from behind drive on those ahead,” and it is the responsibility of young people to surpass their elders.
- 2018 October 28, Aizhu Chen, Li Pei, “Two dead after China bus plunges 60 meters into river: state media”, in Christopher Cushing, editor, Reuters[25], archived from the original on 2023-05-27, Top News[26]:
- The bus collided around 10 am (0200 GMT) into a private car that was driving against the flow of traffic on a four-lane bridge in the city’s Wanxian area. The bus then veered, broke through the bridge fence and plunged into the Yangtze river.
- 2020 August 10, “Worst Rains in Decades Cause China Flooding”, in Time[27], volume 196, numbers 5-6, page 10:
- The rains swelled the Yangtze River, raising record water levels on July 19 at the Three Gorges Dam, upriver from the city of Wuhan.
- 2021 November 16, “'The water is poison': Chinese activist spends life protecting polluted lake”, in France 24[28], archived from the original on 16 November 2021:
- The 74-year-old strident campaigner has spent his life trying to protect the sprawling Lake Dian in southwestern China, challenging businesses to clean up their act around the local beauty spot and reporting those who pollute it. […] But a plan to divert fresh water to Lake Dian from the Yangtze river 400 kilometres away will take years to complete.
- 2022 March 28, “50,000 Chinese sturgeon fry released into Yangtze River”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency[29], archived from the original on 10 April 2022:
- About 50,000 fry of Chinese sturgeon, an endangered fish species, have been released into the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province. […]
Nicknamed "aquatic pandas," the Chinese sturgeon is a species under first-class state protection in China. However, the population of the flagship species in the Yangtze plummeted in the late 20th century due to intrusive human activities.
- 2022 April 28, “China's Covid travel restrictions compound economic pain”, in Financial Times[30]:
- Large electronics makers, including Apple, HP and Dell, could face manufacturing delays with big parts of their supply chain located in badly hit regions around the Yangtze River Delta.
- 2022 April 29, “China Daily: Wuxi out to lure high-caliber talent from around the world”, in AP News[31], archived from the original on 16 May 2022:
- Wuxi sits in the center of the Yangtze River Delta, which is the most developed economic area in China.
- 2022 May 26, Ellen Zhang, Ryan Woo, “China's industrial profits slump in April as COVID curbs squeeze firms”, in Sam Holmes, editor, Reuters[32], archived from the original on 11 June 2022, Business News:
- Industrial output from the commercial hub of Shanghai, located at the heart of manufacturing in the Yangtze River Delta, nosedived 61.5% in April, amid a full lockdown and much steeper than the 2.9% drop nationally.
“At present, virus containment in the Yangtze River Delta improved and work resumption is forging ahead steadily,” Zhu said, expecting the COVID impact on industrial firms to be eased gradually.
- 2022 August 10, Kuan-ting Liu, Wang Cheng-chung, Evelyn Kao, “KMT vice chairman makes controversial visit to China”, in Focus Taiwan[33], archived from the original on 10 August 2022, Cross-Strait:
- According to a KMT source, the main purpose of the trip was to meet with Taiwanese businesses in China, and the delegation will spend most of its time in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta regions where Taiwanese businessmen are concentrated.
- 2023 December 2, Wu Qiuyu, Li Xinping, “Integrated development of Yangtze River Delta region promotes better livelihood”, in People's Daily[34], archived from the original on 02 December 2023[35]:
- The ultimate goal of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region is to ensure and improve people's livelihoods, and allow the general public to better share the fruits of high-quality development.
Spanish citations of Yangtze
- 2020 September 18, “La encantadora Fuling: una ciudad fluvial en evolución”, in EFE, PR Newswire[36], archived from the original on 18 September 2020:
- Nutrida por el río Wujiang y el río Yangtze, Fuling es un lugar encantador del Municipio de Chongqing en el oeste de China.
- Nurtured by the Wujiang River and the Yangtze River, Fuling is a charming place in Chongqing Municipality in western China.