Citations:Shumchun

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English citations of Shumchun

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  • 1924 November 29 [1924 November 15], Hin Wong, “Cantonese for National Re-unification”, in The China Weekly Review[1], volume XXX, number 13, Canton, →OCLC, page 405:
    4. The general office of the League shall be at Shumchun for the present.
  • 1925 February 21 [1925 February 12], “SWATOW THE GOAL OF CANTON ARMY”, in North-China Herald[2], volume CLIV, number 3002, →OCLC, page 300:
    The Canton-Kowloon Railway, according to the report, has been cleared of the enemy since the capture of Shumchun, on the border of Hongkong Territory.
  • 1941, Leon Bryce Bloch, Lamar Middleton, editors, The War Over in 1940[3], New York: Living Age Press, →OCLC, page 691:
    2 Two thousand Japanese troops are concentrated at Shumchun, railroad town opposite Hong Kong border.
    [...]5 Chinese say they have recovered control of the railway from Sheklung to Shumchun. Reports also are that the Japanese have transferred many troops to the Indo-China border.
  • 1942 June 8, “An ANONYMOUS REPORT: ACCOUNT OF STRING OF JAPANESE SUCCESSES DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF WAR”, in Greenwood Library of American War Reporting[4], volume 6, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, published 2005, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:
    The operations against Hongkong were started from Shumchun, south of Hongkong, at 3:30 a.m. on December 8, last year.
  • 1966, Lisa Hobbs, I Saw Red China[5], McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 13:
    And that is how I felt as the train—sparkling clean from its third mopping since our departure from Shumchun—pulled into Canton three hours later.
  • 1973, Harrison E. Salisbury, To Peking—and Beyond: A Report on the New Asia[6], Quadrangle Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
    I looked through the slit, focusing my binoculars as directed by the chief of the Hong Kong defense battalion, and saw through the lens the grim visage of People’s Liberation Army soldiers on guard on their side of the Lo Wu Bridge, the Shumchun side, behind their barbed wire. The year was 1966, and China was tense with the exploding Cultural Revolution.
  • 1973 March 4 [1973 February 22], Sin Wen Tien Ti, quotee, “Returned overseas Chinese tell of touching tip of Communist iceberg on the mainland”, in Free China Weekly[7], volume XIV, number 8, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 3:
    “At Shumchun, each arrival was required to fill a detailed travel form indicating his destination, names of relatives he intended to visit, the travel route, the means of transportation and the places where he would stay.
  • 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Of Chivas Regal and Mao Tse-tung”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China[8], New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
    The Chinese side of the border, Shumchun, is a long building—a combination reception house, customs office, and dining facility. We were guided down corridors, past dining rooms crowded with businessmen noisily enjoying lunch before the train for Guangzhou pulled out.
  • 1993, Jennie Chieh-ju Ch'en, “"Living Angel Liu"”, in Lloyd E. Eastman, editor, Chiang Kai-shek's Secret Past[9], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 123:
    It is most thrilling to see Victoria Peak, with its many palatial buildings built on the various upper levels. Then there are the ranges of high mountains opposite Hong Kong, in the area called Kowloon, which connect to the mainland at Shumchun.
  • 2010, James E. Wise, Jr., Scott Brown, Dangerous Games: Faces, Incidents, and Casualties of the Cold War[10], Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 63:
    Nineteen years after his capture, Fecteau was released in December 1971. He was taken by train to Shumchun, the border town between China and Hong Kong. He was turned over to two armed guards who led him to a wooden footbridge.
  • 2013 November 5, “The past in a different country: Australian expats share memories of living in China”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation[11], archived from the original on 06 November 2013:
    After entry, then the first taste of Chinese hospitality and the privileged treatment accorded to arriving foreigners.
    A jovial English-speaking host walked you along the Shumchun (Shenzhen) railway platform and up a stairway to a restaurant where you were offered a multi-course tasty meal, and saw the first evidence of China's doctrine of self-sufficiency. No Coca Cola here, the soft drink was different in taste, sugar-heavy.
  • 2018, Paul French, City of Devils[12], Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
    Cabbage Moh, a Cantonese smuggler and drug dealer from triad-controlled Shumchun on the Hong Kong border, sees an opportunity to the north and opens dens supplying dope and philopon ferried up the Soochow Creek and distributed out of Fah Wah Village, adjacent to the new sin strip.