Citations:Ching-men

English citations of Ching-men

Map including CHING-MEN (JINGMEN) (DMA, 1985)

• 1923, Shigeyoshi Obata, transl., Li Po, the Chinese Poet‎^[1], →OCLC, page 40:

  Here a few feet
  Seem a thousand miles.
  The craggy walls glisten blue and red,
  A piece of dazzling embroidery.
  How green those distant trees are
  Round the river strait of Ching-men!
  And those ships-they go on,
  Floating on the waters of Pa.
  The water sings over the rocks
  Between countless hills
  Of shining mist and lustrous grass.

• 1972, Chang Kwang-chih, “Major Aspects of Ch'u Archaeology”, in Early Chinese Art and its Possible Influence in the Pacific Basin‎^[2], volume 1, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 16:

  A bronze ko 戈 and a bronze sword of the late Chou type were found in Ching-men 荆門, some 90 km north of Chiang-ling (Wang Y.P., 1963a);[...]

• 1993, Ralph D. Sawyer, transl., The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 315:

  Hsiao-kung wanted to attack him, but Ching said: "You cannot! Shih-hung is a stalwart general, while those below him are all courageous men. Now when they have newly lost Ching-men, they will all be full of ardor to oppose us. This is an army which can rescue the defeated and cannot be opposed.