Citations:Jin

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English citations of Jin

  • 1984, Zhuang Weiji, quotee, Jews in Old China: Studies by Chinese Scholars[1], Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 147:
    Between 1946 and 1948 in the ruins of the foundations of Quanzhou’s South Gate Tower and southern wall we excavated more that twenty large white gravestones, inscribed in Arabic on both sides. They obviously had been taken from a demolished Islamic mosque. The area overlooked in the Jin River and was known as South Quanzhou, or the “Foreign District.” It was here that merchants from overseas and their families had lived during Song and Yuan.
  • 2010, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, “China: To the Mosque of the Phoenix”, in Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam from Zanzibar to the Alhambra[2], John Murray, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 200:
    Wang Feng and I made our way to the world’s former greatest harbour. It is to the west of the city on the Jin River, and far enough inland from Quanzhou Bay to be reasonably safe from typhoons.
  • 2010 May 24, “Chinese officials perform Penghu water ceremony”, in Taipei Times[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2010, Taiwan News, page 2‎[4]:
    In Fujian, the water will come from the Min River, Jiulong River, Jin River, Ting River and Sai River, Liu said.
  • 2016, “Fujian”, in China[5], DK, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 297, column 1:
    Located on the Jin River, Quanzhou was China’s principal port during the Song and Yuan dynasties.
  • 2023 February 8, Kelvin Chen, “Swiss parliamentarian delegation visits Taiwan's Kinmen”, in Taiwan News[6], archived from the original on 08 March 2023, Politics‎[7]:
    He said that four years ago, the island began receiving water from the Jin River, in Quanzhou, China, and now 70-80% of Kinmen's water comes from China.