Citations:Siyi

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English citations of Siyi

  • [1956, Jen-ts'ai (梁仁采) Liang, 广东经济地理 [Economic Geography of Kwangtung]‎[1], Peiping, →OCLC, pages 15–16:
    Aside from these two deltas, other densely-populated areas are the southern Mu-ming Plain in western Kwangtung and Ssu-i (including Hsin-hui, Kai-ping, Tai-shan, and En-ping) where the population density per square kilometer averages 300.]
  • [1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968[2], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
    People in the Ssu-i (the four counties — T'ai-shan, K'ai-p'ing, Hsin-hui, En-p'ing), for example, though not far from Canton, have their own distinct dialect, which is scarcely intelligible to an ordinary Cantonese.]
  • 1986, Him Mark Lai, A History Reclaimed: An Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Language Materials on the Chinese of America[3], University of California, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
    Report by village enumerates death and property losses in the Siyi region resulting from the Japanese invasion which began on 3 March 1941.
  • 1998, Stephanie Po-yin Chung, “Hong Kong Merchants in New China, 1900-11”, in Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China, 1900-25[4], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 52-53:
    From this power base, Hong Kong’s non-Siyi residents were about to enter into another important struggle with the colony’s Siyi men: the redemption of Canton currency, a topic that will be dealt with in the following chapter.