Citations:Xi'an

English citations of Xi'an

西安
Xi'an

西安城南客运站
XI’AN CHENG NAN COACH STATION

• 1984 January, Nina Hyde, “The Queen of Textiles”, in National Geographic‎^[1], volume 165, number 1, page 30:

  THE SILK ROAD was actually a perilous network of routes. It was hazardous to monks and pilgrims carrying Buddhist teachings between India and China and even more hazardous to traders, who intended to exchange gold, wool, horses, jade, and glass for silk. The road started in what is now Xi'an, in Shaanxi Province, traversed a barren crust of earth through treacherous mountains and desert across Central Asia to Antioch and Tyre; the last lap, to Europe and Egypt, was by water to other Mediterranean ports.

• 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[2], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 434:

  We began the trip at the ancient capital of Xi'an, where the Chinese put on an elaborate and beautiful welcoming ceremony. The next day we had the opportunity to walk among the rows of the famous terra-cotta warriors, and to have a roundtable discussion with Chinese citizens in the small village of Xiahe.

• 2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics‎^[3], Scribner, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 220:

  Then on Wednesday, after our formal talks concluded, Joan, Eleanor, and I traveled to the ancient city of Xi'an, home of the extraordinary exhibit of terra-cotta soldiers.

• 2023 March 31, Didi Tang, “Terracotta Army’s broken arms may solve mystery of its creation”, in The Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 March 2023‎^[5]:

  Quite how the other 7,999 or so warriors — each about 6ft tall and weighing just over 28 stone — were made more than 2,000 years ago, however, has long been a subject of debate, with experts questioning how the intricately carved figures could have been produced on site in Xi’an, northwestern China.