Huai River

Huai river English Alternative forms en Huai river Etymology en cmn - 淮河. Pronunciation hwīHwai River 818 3 en ɪvə(ɹ) Proper noun Huai River en major river in central c/China, now a tributary of the Yangtze. en 1895 Herbert J. Allen Ssŭma Chʻien's Historical Records https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas2718roya/ w:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 1356-1863 470145924 97 https://archive.org/details/journalofroyalas2718roya/page/n116/ The Huai river and the sea formed the boundaries of Yangchow. en 1952 January-February w:Soong Ching Ling Welfare Work and World Peace w:China Reconstructs https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1952-01-sm/ 1 1 w:China Welfare Institute 0009-4447 185428569 2 https://archive.org/details/cr196912/CR1952-01-sm/page/n3/ In other sectors of our national life, giant and fundamental solutions have been undertaken for age-old problems, such as the floods with which the Huai river has plagued our people for thirty centuries. en 1955 w:Richard L. Walker China Under Communism: The First Five Years https://archive.org/details/chinaundercommun011436mbp/ New Haven w:Yale University Press 55-6422 313765001 12 https://archive.org/details/chinaundercommun011436mbp/page/n35/ Those "counterrevolutionaries" who were not executed were subjected to "reform through labor," a euphemism for slave labor, and participated in the intensive work which began on railway and road construction and water conservation schemes. The most important of the latter was the vaunted Huai River flood control project, which has been the subject of praise in all the accounts of fellow travelers who have visited China. en https://archive.org/details/understandingmod0000unse/ 1969 Understanding Modern China w:Joseph Kitagawa w:Quadrangle Books 70-78310 869241213 49 In 1938 the great stream was deflected to the south by the Chinese in a misplaced effort to delay the advance of Japanese forces moving southward from T'ien-ching (Tientsin) and Pei-ching (Peking); and it flowed southeastward into the Huai river system and thence through a series of lakes and the Grand Canal down into the Yangtze drainage area. en 2011 w:Lisa See Dreams of Joy https://archive.org/details/dreamsofjoynovel0000seel_k9of/ Oxford ISIS Publishing 978-0-7531-8943-6 828866246 157 https://archive.org/details/dreamsofjoynovel0000seel_k9of/page/157/ It’s now called Huaihai Road, which commemorates the second great campaign of 1949, when Mao’s soldiers advanced from the Huai River to the sea, putting them in position to take Shanghai. en 2013 Ma Jian (writer) Ma Jian Flora Drew The Dark Road https://archive.org/details/darkroadnovel0000maji/ w:Penguin Books 9780143125402 2013006813 892707567 152 https://archive.org/details/darkroadnovel0000maji/page/152/ The creek connects the Xi River to factories along the Huai River, but it’s too shallow for large boats to navigate. en JULY 19, 2020 Muyu Xu; Xu Jing; Tom Daly China raises flood alert levels along Huai River Lincoln Feast https://web.archive.org/web/20200719081458/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-weather-floods-idUSKCN24K06K 19 July 2020 w:Reuters Environment China on Sunday raised the flood alert level in the Huai River region in the country’s east to Level II from Level III, the second highest on its four-tier scale, after days of torrential downpours and amid expectations of further heavy rainfall.Ten reservoirs on the Huai River have seen water levels exceeding warning levels by as much as 6.85 metres, according to the Huaihe River Commission of China’s Ministry of Water Resources.The 1,000km (620 mile) Huai River flows through major agriculture and manufacturing hubs in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces. en Synonyms from Mandarin Chinese en Huai He, en Huai Ho Translations river Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 淮河 Huái Hé Japanese: ja 淮河 わいが, Waiga Korean: ko 회하 Manchu: mnc ᡥᡡᠸᠠᡳ ᠮᡠᡴᡝ References Further reading en 1998 Huai Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1320 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1320/ 2