Citations:Zhongwei

English citations of Zhongwei

中卫
Zhongwei

• [1976 August 22, “Second quake”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly]‎^[1], volume XVII, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

  The Central Weather Bureau in Taipei pinpointed the epicenter of the August 16 earthquake on the Chinese mainland at a spot in the vicinity of Chungwei, Ninghsia province. […]
  Chungwei is located on a railway near the Great Wall. It is close to the boundary of Kansu. The earthquake was powerful enough to damage the ancient wall, according to seismologists.]

• [1978, Chung Chih [众志], “Deserts”, in An Outline of Chinese Geography [中国地理简况]‎^[2], 1st edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 106:

  The longest stretch of uninterrupted desertland it traverses, 16 kilometres, is in Shapotou of Chungwei County in the southeastern Tyngeri Desert. It is an area of sand dunes where the climate is dry and there are frequent strong winds.]

• 1980 March, Rick Gore, “Journey to China's Far West”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310, column 1:

  WE GET OFF the train in the town of Zhongwei in the largely Muslim Ningxia autonomous region.

• 1982, The Desert Realm‎^[4], National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 223:

  At Zhongwei we disembarked to visit a place named Shapotou, which means "at the head of a sandy slope." The name describes the location, the edge of the Tengger, a shamo where dunes creep along the foothills of the Xiangshan, an east-west mountain range.