Great Wall

English + of China + (Astronomy) Proper noun great wall 1 en Great Wall of China. en 1669 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ John Macock London 561227535 6 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n17/ China ſituated in the furtheſt part of Aſia, borders towards the Eaſt, South, and Weſt, upon the great Indian Sea, and is called Tung by the Chineſes, which ſignifies Eaſterly. And on the North it is ſeparated from the Kingdoms of Ninche, and Nicolhan, by that famous Wall which was made by thoſe of China againſt the Invaſion of the Tartars. on 1741, Uncredited translator, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary by Jean-Baptiste du Halde, London: Edward Cave, pages 20-21, The Gates of the Great Wall are defended on the ſide of China, by pretty large Forts : The firſt of them to the Eaſt is call'd Shang-bay-Quan, it ſtands near the Wall, which extends, from the Bulwark before-mentioned, the Space of a League, along a Country perfectly level, and does not begin to aſcend the Mountains, till after it has paſs'd that Place. en 1904 C. D. Tenney Geography of Asia https://archive.org/details/geographyofasia00tennrich/ New York w:MacMillan and Co 182639088 6 https://archive.org/details/geographyofasia00tennrich/page/6/ Kalgan or Chang-chia-k'ou (zh 張家口) is in the north-western corner of the province just inside the Great Wall, at the beginning of the camel route across the desert to Siberia. en 1956 October Grace Liu A Train Trip in China New World Review https://archive.org/details/sim_update-ussr_1956-10_24_10/ New York S.R.T. Publications 24 10 0028-7067 8299959 20 https://archive.org/details/sim_update-ussr_1956-10_24_10/page/20/ 1 On the trip out our car was full of railway workers, going out to work on the Lanchow-Sinkiang Railway which had already reached Yumen, China’s biggest oil field, and in 1960 will connect with the Soviet Union’s Turkestan-Siberia Railway; or to the Lanchow-Yinchuan section, which cuts through the Great Wall to reach Yinchuan, a major wool, hide and skin trading center in the Northwest. en 1968 PEKING (PEIPING) w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/ 17 68-10064 1036882 533 https://archive.org/details/encyclopdiabrita17chic/page/n586/ 1 Under the Nationalist regime, Peking's municipal area covered more than 300 sq.mi. Under the Communists, the city limits were greatly expanded. As a result of annexations in 1953, the municipal district was extended to the Great Wall, 35 mi. from the city centre. en 1977 Flavio Conti The Great Wall, People's Republic of China w:Patrick Creagh Breaking the Confines The Grand Tour https://archive.org/details/breakingconfines00cont/ 1978 New York w:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-003730-9 78-56251 4003694 55 https://archive.org/details/breakingconfines00cont/page/55/ 3 This reconstructed Great Wall stretched from the River Yalu in the east, on the border with Korea, to Chiayükuan in Kansu Province. en 2005 w:Bill Clinton My Life (Clinton autobiography) My Life https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/ II New York w:Vintage Books 1-4000-9673-1 60594427 435 https://archive.org/details/mylifepresidenti00clin/page/435/ After we toured the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, I held a question-and-answer session with students at Beijing University. en https://archive.org/details/reagandiaries00reag/ 2007 28 April 1984 w:Ronald Reagan w:Douglas Brinkley w:The Reagan Diaries w:HarperCollins 978-0-06-087600-5 235 https://archive.org/details/reagandiaries00reag/page/235/ After lunch we picked up Nancy & were off to the Great Wall. All the way we waved our arms off at the crowds lining the streets to see us & even in the villages after we got out of the country.The Wall has an amazing effect even though you've seen photos & movies of it. There is a feeling I can't describe when you stand on it & see it disappear over the mountains in both directions. en 2019 w:Daron Acemoglu; w:James A. Robinson Mandate of Heaven The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty https://archive.org/details/TheNarrowCorridor/ New York w:Penguin Press 9780735224384 2019009146 1082389836 209 https://archive.org/details/TheNarrowCorridor/page/209/ In March 1647, three years after the Manchus had first occupied Beijing, Chang Shang, the governor of Kansu Province, was on an inspection tour. By March 4 he had reached Yung-ch'ang, a county lying just within the Great Wall. en en en colloquial The high barrier of entry to enter or discouragement to forming a romantic relationship with a Chinese person especially for a non-Chinese person. Proper noun great wall en astronomy One of several galaxy filaments, which are the largest cosmic structures, being larger than a supercluster, forming partitions between cosmic voids, and contributing to the structure of the cosmic web. en BOSS Great Wall BOSS Great Wall Further reading Great Wall 715 3 Anagrams en aaegllrtw water-gall