Citations:mainland China

English citations of mainland China

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Conclusion”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[1], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 348:

  Had my Government remained on the mainland, there would never have been such calamities as the Korean War and the Communist occupation of northern Korea and northern Indo-China. The place to begin combating Communism in Asia, therefore, is mainland China.

• 1968, “SHANGHAI (SHANG-HAI)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 346, column 2:

  In 1953 the city had only 20% of the total value of mainland China's industrial output, but this was officially claimed to be 368% higher than that of 1950.

• 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[3], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 282:

  Many Americans were primarily Europeanists in their approach to foreign affairs, dismissing Asia as relatively unimportant. But the United States is a Pacific power, and rapid changes were taking place in Asia—where more than half the human race lived—that might well determine the world's future. Japan would soon be the world's third-ranking industrial power, behind the United States and the Soviet Union. Some of the most rapid rates of economic progress anywhere were being achieved by the nations of non-Communist Asia. And mainland China potentially posed the greatest threat to peace during the final third of the twentieth century.

• 1983 December 18, “Butterfield Tells Suffering On Mainland”, in Free China Weekly‎^[4], volume XXIV, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

  Chinese Communist rule on mainland China during the past three decades has destroyed the vitality, spirit and cultural heritage of the Chinese people, said Fox Butterfield, during an address at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Dec. 11.

• 2004, Phil Macdonald, National Geographic Traveler: Taiwan, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:

  At Cihhu (Cihu), near the town of Dasi (Daxi), 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Taipei on Provincial Highway 7, Chiang Kai-shek lies entombed above ground in a granite and marble coffin in one of his former country villas. The gravesite is "temporary," as before his death Chiang had requested his body be returned to his native province of Zhejiang in mainland China.

• 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[5], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 313:

  Ever since President Carter normalized relations with mainland China, the United States had followed a consistent policy of recognizing "one China" while continuing to have good relations with Taiwan, and saying that the two sides should resolve their differences peacefully.

• 2014, Jerome A. Cohen, “Foreward”, in My Fight for a New Taiwan‎^[6], University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page VIII:

  The academic year 1977-78 was a time of great tension in Sino- American relations. The world—not only the people on Taiwan—was waiting to see whether the new administration of President Jimmy Carter would complete the process of normalizing relations with mainland China, that is, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), that the Nixon administration had begun.

• 2022 March 16, “Hong Kong to close off beaches after mainland China uproar”, in France 24‎^[7], archived from the original on 16 March 2022:

  Hong Kong will close most of the city's beaches, leader Carrie Lam said Wednesday, after photos of maskless residents enjoying sun and surf sparked outrage in mainland China. […] But tens of millions in mainland China were abruptly placed under stay at home orders this week, after the emergence of more than 3,000 daily new cases as Beijing battles to maintain its "dynamic zero" Covid strategy.

• 2022 March 18, Dake Kang, Huizhong Wu, “China weighs exit from ‘zero COVID’ and the risks involved”, in AP News‎^[8], archived from the original on 18 March 2022:

  In mainland China, authorities have shut down travel out of and within the hardest-hit province, Jilin in the northeast. More than 1,800 cases were reported in Jilin on Friday, out of 2,400 nationwide. Restrictions were partially eased, however, in Shenzhen, a major tech and finance hub bordering Hong Kong that had been locked down since Sunday.

• 2022 May 19, Martin Quin Pollard, Roxanne Liu, “China slightly eases COVID test rules for travellers from U.K.”, in Reuters‎^[9], archived from the original on 01 June 2022:

  The majority of international flights to and from mainland China have been cancelled for the past two years.

• 2023 March 27, “Taiwan's former leader Ma sets off on China tour”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[10], archived from the original on 2023-08-12, Politics‎^[11]:

  Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou began his 12-day visit to mainland China on Monday, arriving at the Pudong Airport in Shanghai.