Citations:Wei River

English citations of Wei River

Yellow River Tributary

• 1856, Thomas Taylor Meadows, The Chinese and their Rebellions‎^[1], London: Smith, Elder & Co., →OCLC, page 176:

  The fact, therefore, that the Tae pings, when they raised the siege of Hwae king on the 1st September marched westwards by it into Shan se, shows that the Imperial forces were strong enough to prevent their descent by the Wei river.

• 1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 3:

  Leaving Kuanyint'ang there is a drop into a ravine and then a stiff climb of a few hundred feet to reach the pass over a range of mountains, the watershed between the Lo and Yellow rivers. This ridge is really the end of one of the principal ranges of the Ch'inling Shan, the one which runs east and west right across Shensi immediately south of the Wei River.

• 1984, Vaclav Smil, The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

  Devastated forests in some provinces and autonomous regions in that area are twice the size of afforested land (Xinhua, June 10, 1979, JPRS 73796), and in some counties nine times; where millions of trees are to be planted before 1985 as a “strategic measure” to control erosion and desertification, animal or tractor-drawn carts can be seen on the roads, loaded with indiscriminately and illegally cut trunks, branches, and roots (Jiang 1979), and on the already heavily eroded Loess Plateau and in the Wei He (Wei River) valley unscrupulous lumbering has not only not ceased, but is actually increasing in some places.

• 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020‎^[5]:

  THERE WAS NO China, only a collection of squabbling states, before the short-lived but powerful Qin dynasty (221-206 B.C.) brought terror and unity to the land. The Qin were the first to stake their capital here, on the Wei River, but the country’s Han majority — now the world’s biggest ethnic group, more than a billion strong, representing nearly one out of every six people on earth — take their name from the Qin’s successor, the Han dynasty, which raised a new capital nearby, Chang’an, in 202-200 B.C.

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• 1977, Roxane Witke, “Escape from Childhood”, in Comrade Chiang Chʻing‎^[6], Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 45:

  Her first home was in Chu-ch'eng, a city of some 80,000 persons on the south bank of the Wei River, about fifty miles from the cosmopolitan port city of Tsingtao in Shantung province.