Citations:Yellow River

English citations of Yellow River

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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.

• 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[2], London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 235–236:

  Firſt of all, There are in China two famous large Rivers, namely Kiang, and the Yellow River.
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  The Yellow River, by ſtrangers ſo called from the colour of the water, occaſioned by the Yellowneſs of the ground, is named Hoang in the Chineſe Language, and ſeems at firſt to be very Mooriſh ; but the ſwiftneſs and great force of its running, makes it appear the quite contrary; for with ſo incredible a ſwiftneſs does this River run, that no Ships are able to Sail up againſt its Stream, but are drawn up againſt the ſame by the main ſtrength of a great number of Track-men: which may proceed from its being contracted within ſo narrow bounds ; for in ſome places it is but half a mile broad, and in others a little broader, but in a continued courſe, for in length it extends above 800 miles.

• 1697, William Vincent, “From NICÆA to the MOUTH of the INDUS”, in The Voyage of Nearchus‎^[3], London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies, page 72:

  If the cities and towns of China ſtand as thick throughout the empire, as on the canals navigated by the Engliſh, from the Yellow River to Pekin, it does not appear how there can be ſpace for agriculture to feed them.

• 1747, A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels‎^[4], volume IV, London: Thomas Astley, page 135:

  UNDER the firſt Dynaſty of the Tang, the Banks of the Yellow River having tumbled down, there were found three 'thouſand three hundred Pieces of Money with three Feet; but the Characters were defaced.

• 1798, Complete View of the Chinese Empire‎^[5], London, page 400:

  After passing a short stage, through low lands with very different prospects, a succession of good towns and villages, numerous vessels, and crowds of people, indicated the vicinity of the Yellow River, into which the canal falls with a gentle force.
  November 2d, the yachts came to the spot where the canal joins the Yellow River.
  The Yellow River runs at this place with such rapidity that the Chinese sailors deemed it necessary to offer a sacrifice to its Guardian Spirit for a safe passage.

• 1802 July, Joseph Hager, “The Monument of Yu, or most ancient Inscription of China”, in The Critical Review‎^[6], volume XXXV, London, page 288:

  The history of the monument is as follows. In the 61st year of the reign of Yao, there happened so great and general a deluge in the empire of China, that the Yellow River, surmounting its banks, was confounded with the waters of two others, and, overwhelming the plains, became, as it were, a vast sea ; insomuch that the hills were covered ; it surpassed the mountains ; and appeared to extend to the clouds. The evils which this deluge occasioned exceeded the powers of description ; the chief necessaries of life were wanted, the people were reduced to misery, and the sovereign was overcome by dejection.

• 1872 July 27, “Abstract of Peking Gazettes”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette‎^[7], volume IX, number 273, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 69, column 1:

  (4) Ting Pao-cheng, lieut.-governor of Shantung, reports having sacrificed to the Tai Shan (泰山), inspected the Confucian Temple at Chüfow (the native place of Confucius), which has just undergone a thorough repair, and examined the dykes erected to protect the low lands, in the neighbourhood of Yuncheng, from the inundations of the Yellow River.

• 1894, William Woodville Rockhill, Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892‎^[8], Smithsonian Institution, page 84:

  Just before crossing the Yellow River to reach Fei-tzŭ-ch'uan,* where we proposed spending the night, we passed through the ruins of what must have been a prefectural city (Hsien).

• 1895, Herbert J. Allen, “Ssŭma Chʻien's Historical Records”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland‎^[9], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 97:

  The wild tribes of the Huai brought oyster-pearls and fish, and their baskets were full of dark embroideries and pure white silken fabrics. You float along the Huai and Szŭ and so reach the Yellow river.

• 1918 April, Rodney Gilbert, “Pneumonic Plague in China”, in Asia‎^[10], volume XVIII, number 4, American Asiatic Association, page 344, columns 2, 3:

  Moving west from Paotowchen there is only one highway, which many camel trains from Kansu follow in winter, but which is almost deserted in summer when the Yellow River is ice free. This road leads through Santaoho, a Roman Catholic Mission village near the elbow of the river, through Shihtsuishan, where there is a carefully guarded pass and a large garrison, and on into the populous Ninghsia district of Kansu, altogether an eighteen day journey of about 1,300 11 through thinly settled country in which a pestilence would travel with difficulty and in which it could have been most effectually checked at any of half a dozen points.

• 1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26:

  As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Beginnings”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[11], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

  Had China been partitioned in the years immediately following 1895,* Czarist Russia would have obtained an area north of the Yellow River which constitutes nearly 40 per cent of the entire Chinese territory. But from 1900,** the United States stood opposed to the partition of China by advocating the Open Door Policy.

• 1969, Joseph Kitagawa, editor, Understanding Modern China‎^[12], Quadrangle Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:

  All but one of these major fluvial lowlands is alluvial and aggradational in nature. The largest by far is the North China plain, largely the product of the Yellow river, the Huang, and sometimes known as the Yellow plain.

• 1971, Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens, “Town Planning”, in Robert Allen, transl., Living Architecture: Chinese‎^[13], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 53, column 2:

  This development was also linked with the importance of the ancient carriage roads in Northern China, which were as straight as those the Romans built, and with the huge engineering works required to cope with the threat of the Yellow River in the north, the Min in the west and the Yanzi in the centre, to mention but three of the most important.

• 1973 June 10, “Engineers hold annual conference”, in Free China Weekly‎^[14], volume XIV, number 22, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

  Engineers Day was proclaimed in memory of the Emperor Yu the Great, the legendary monarch believed to have been born in 2200 B.C., who is credited with having tamed the Yellow River after his father had failed in a effort to do so.

• 1980 [1943], Zedong Mao, “On the development of agriculture”, in Andrew Watson, editor, Mao Zedong and the Political Economy of the Border Region: A Translation of Mao's Economic and Financial Problems‎^[15], Cambridge University Press, published 1944, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:

  In 1939, there were only about 300,000 mu of ploughed land in Yan’an. In 1942, there were 699,538 mu. There used to be a lot of uncultivated land in the counties of Ansai, Anding, Yanchuan, and Yanchang. Now there is very little. Before 1940 the Border Region bought grain from Luochuan county and east of the Yellow River. Now, not only is it unnecessary to buy grain from outside, there is even some surplus grain which is exported to the region of Yulin.

• 1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[16], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:

  Next morning we drive to Shapotou on the edge of the Tengger Desert. Behind us churns the Yellow River, looking viscous with its load of ocher silt.

• 1987, Amy Shui, Stuart Thompson, “China and its people”, in Chinese Food and Drink‎^[17], Wayland Publishers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 4, column 2:

  The Yellow River got its name from the massive amount of fertile loess (yellow earth) which it has deposited in the wheat-growing North China Plain.

• 1991, Carol Stepanchuk, Charles Wong, “Festivals of Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire”, in Mooncakes and Hungry Ghosts: Festivals of China‎^[18], San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 108:

  Politically, China proper (where the core of Han culture and settlement began in the middle of the Yellow River valley) and frontier areas of China were brought together under the Qing dynasty, mostly during the 18th century. Incursions by earlier dynasties into Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and southern Manchuria did occur, but were later reversed. It is this latest process of expansion that accounts for the enormous size of the People's Republic of China today.

• 2001, Kim Dramer, The Yellow River‎^[19], Franklin Watts, →ISBN, page 7:

  China's Yellow River, or Huang he, is named for the yellow, sandy silt it carries in its water. This silt, called loess, is almost as fine as flour. Over thousands of years, the northwestern wind blowing from the Gobi Desert has deposited hundreds of fee of loess over northern China. As the Yellow River flows through China, it sweeps away the fine, yellow silt and carries it downriver.

• 2014, Amanda Vaill, Hotel Florida‎^[20], Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 319–320:

  Although Peter Koester told him that the pictures he'd been able to send back to New York—including shots of a Chinese victory at the walled town of Taierhchwang, unprecedented coverage of one of Chiang Kai-shek's cabinet meetings, and a series showing peasants fleeing the defensive flooding of the Yellow River—were "first class . . . technically, reportagewise, better than your Spanish work," Capa was having a difficult time of it.

• 2020 June 5, Stephen Chen, “Prehistoric ancestors of modern-day Chinese favoured rice over millet, study says”, in South China Morning Post‎^[21], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 June 2020, Science‎^[22]:

  The Yellow River has long been regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilisation. The early occupants established a complex culture, which included making painted ceramics, and were the first people in the world to grow millet, the study said.

• 2021 October 12, “One million affected, 15 dead in China floods”, in EFE‎^[23], archived from the original on 12 October 2021:

  Xinhua reported that a dam had broken on Saturday on Fen, a tributary of the Yellow River, in which the water levels have reached their highest mark in nearly 40 years.