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Ning-po
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en Ningbo, a port-city, prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Zhejiang, China.
en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/ 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 John Macock London 229 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n244/ In Ningpo, the ninth City of the Province of Chekiang, both ſides of the Artificial Rivers, for ſeveral miles together, are made up with Stone : At the end of every River lyes a Sluce, through which all Veſſels muſt paſs before they come into it.
en https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/mode/2up 1956 China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic Theodore Shabad Frederick A. Praeger New York 55-11530 633834569 6179148M 153 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000shab/page/152/mode/ In the Lower Yangtze plain section of Chekiang, rice is associated with winter wheat and with silk and cotton. Cotton is also cultivated-on the south shore of Hangchow Bay, chiefly around Yüyao, from where it is shipped to Shanghai and Ningpo.
en 1986 James H. Cole Shaohsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century China https://archive.org/details/shaohsingcompeti00cole/ w:University of Arizona Press 0-8165-0994-8 86-7027 933802425 32 https://archive.org/details/shaohsingcompeti00cole/page/32/ The Shang-yü gazetteer describes the increasing unruliness of tenants from the Opium War period on, and rather disingenuously places all the blame on the unrest stirred up by the British invasion of Ningpo at that time.
en October 28, 2006 Obituaries w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20231015143728/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/10/28/obituaries/c7e461f2-85d1-434b-91e1-fc903d4e8b14/ 15 October 2023 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2006/10/28/obituaries/c7e461f2-85d1-434b-91e1-fc903d4e8b14/ 0190-8286 2269358 She grew up in Chevy Chase; Long Beach, Calif.; Ningpo, China; and Geneva as the family moved because of her father's Navy assignments.
en 2018 Paul French (author) Paul French City of Devils https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/ Picador (imprint) Picador 978-1-250-17059-0 2017060113 1050280429 51 https://archive.org/details/cityofdevilstwom0000fren/page/51/ The men from Ningpo who'd moved to Shanghai and created banking empires are just the type of bankers Jack likes: tight-lipped.
en October 17, 2018 Mark Ives Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20181017220740/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html 17 October 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/obituaries/yamei-kin-overlooked.html 0362-4331 1645522 Obituaries Yamei Kin was born in 1864 in the eastern Chinese city of Ningpo, now called Ningbo, to a Chinese pastor and his wife, according to an annotated bibliography of Kin’s life that was published in 2016 by the SoyInfo Center in California.
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