Sining

sining English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn - 西寧. Pronunciation shēʹnĭngʹ Proper noun en Xining. en https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00geiluoft/mode/2up 1909 The Great Wall of China William Edgar Geil John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. London 286 https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00geiluoft/page/286/mode/ Then there is the newly organised police force, and the modernising of the troops. For Sining is not only a city of temples and yamens, but of barracks. Here are quartered two hundred horse and two thousand foot soldiers. en https://archive.org/details/forbiddenjourney0000mail/mode 1937 Forbidden Journey: From Peking to Kashmir Ella K. Maillart William Heinemann Ltd 53 https://archive.org/details/forbiddenjourney0000mail/page/n89/mode/ Peter had the bright idea of at once looking up C. C. Ku, to whom we had an introduction from his brother, a student in Peking. Ku spoke fluent English, having studied at Cornell University. He had been sent from Nanking to Sining with the rank of lieutenant-general, and succeeded in making a good impression on “The Young General,” Ma Bu-fang. en 1942 w:Violet Cressy-Marcks GREAT NORTH-WEST Journey Into China https://archive.org/details/journeyintochina0000viol/ New York w:E. P. Dutton & Co. 1592200 280 https://archive.org/details/journeyintochina0000viol/page/280/ We had planned to go in two days, though no official permission had yet arrived for us to leave Lanchow. We had done little about it, except to inform a Foreign Office official and the Governor that we wished to go further west. Frank wanted to see farms between here and Sining, and I wanted to go to Koko Nor Lake. Further reading pn Anagrams en giinns sign in sing-in singin'