Citations:Hsia-p'u

English citations of Hsia-p'u

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Map including HSIA-P'U (AMS, 1954)

• 1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Through Shên-kan: the account of the Clark expedition in north China, 1908-9‎^[1], page 166:

  Passing Wang-chia-p'u at 7 miles, and Shan-chia at 10 miles, the road at 11½ miles crosses to the right bank, and traversing Kao-chia-ch'eng (12 miles), T'uan-chuang (14 miles), and Hsia-p'u (20 miles), reaches Ching-ning Chou, a prosperous town of about 5000 inhabitants.

• 1967, Wolfram Eberhard, Guilt and Sin in Traditional China‎^[2], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

  Mu-lien was a pious Buddhist who attempted to save his mother from the punishments in hell, as we heard above (p. 25), and who, according to some traditions, eventually became Ti-tsang.⁷⁵ He, too, had several temples. In our survey, the oldest one was in Hsia-pʻu (Fukien), renamed with his name in 954, rebuilt in 972, and for the last time, in 1915. There was still another temple for him in Hsia-pʻu, but undated.

• 1968, Wolfram Eberhard, translated by Alide Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China‎^[3], Leiden: E. J. Brill, →OCLC, page 391:

  All his temples seem to be along rivers, while temples along the southeastern coast seem to be late (one in Hsia-p’u, Fukien, was built in 1866 (Hsia-p’u hsien-chih).

• 1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries‎^[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97:

  Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards.

• 1995, Annual Tropical Cyclone Report 1981‎^[5], Joint Typhoon Warning Center, page 51:

  Nina had weakened to tropical depression strength when landfall was made at 221800Z, 30 nm (56 km) northwest of Hsia-p'u, China.