Kirin

kirin kirîn English Etymology 1 Borrowed from en mnc ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠨ. Pronunciation kēʹrǐnʹen 1952 Kirin Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 953 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/953/ 1 Kirin (kēʹrǐnʹ), Chinese Chi-lin (jēʹlǐnʹ),en 1979 Chi-lin or Ki·rin The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 155 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/155/ 2 Chi-lin (jēʹlǐnʹ) or Ki·rin (kēʹrǐnʹ), en Proper noun en dated en Jilin (a province in northeastern China). en https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeo00hosigoog/mode/2up 1904 Manchuria: Its People, Resources and Recent History Alexander Hosie Charles Scribner's Sons New York 11–12 https://archive.org/details/manchuriaitspeo00hosigoog/page/n30/mode/ A single caravan often numbers many as twenty large carts, each with a team of seven animals. In the best caravans, that is those which go into the provinces of Kirin and Hei-lung-chiang and into Mongolia, a team usually consists of a pony in the shafts and six tracing mules three abreast. en https://archive.org/details/comingstrugglein00weal/mode/2up 1908 The Coming Struggle in Eastern Asia B. L. Putnam Weale Macmillan and Co., Limited 180–181 https://archive.org/details/comingstrugglein00weal/page/180/mode/ This trade had only begun to grow to considerable proportions in the later 'nineties, and, had not the Chinese Eastern Railway been built and Harbin founded, it is quite certain that steam flour-mills would have been erected by Russian speculators along the course of the Amur river to deal with the bulk cargoes of grain that were constantly being received from the Kirin province of Manchuria. en https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/mode/2up 1934 China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People George Babock Cressey McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 767884632 122 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000cres/page/122/mode During the present century, copper has been mined in Yunnan, Szechwan, Kansu, Sinkiang, Fukien, Liaoning, and Kirin; and deposits are known to be present in a number of other provinces. en 14 March 1969 13 March 1969 Report from Border Areas Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063627855&seq=661 50 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA International Service 1541329 A 6 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435063627855&seq=670 https://books.google.com/books?id=n8zyL63oJxsC&pg=RA29-PA6 Members of the Chinghsin people's commune in Hunchun County, Kirin Province, on the anti-revisionist forefront, demonstrated through the night. en April 8, 1979 Wallposter in Kirin Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-04-08_20_13/ XX 13 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-04-08_20_13/page/n2/ A “big-character” wall poster appearing in Changchun, Kirin Province, on Feb. 2, denounced the Chinese Communist regime’s crackdown on dissidents clamoring for human rights, an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland said April 3. en dated en Jilin (a city in the province of the same name). en https://archive.org/details/manchuriakorea00whigiala/mode/1up 1904 Manchuria and Korea H. J. Whigham Charles Scribner's Sons New York 56 https://archive.org/details/manchuriakorea00whigiala/page/56/mode/1up A simple example may be given to show the great advantage of railway transport in this country. In order to get from Kuan-cheng-tze to Kirin (a distance of eighty miles or so), we had to hire four carts to carry ourselves and our effects. The journey took three days and cost eighty roubles (£8) for cart hire alone. When the branch railway to Kirin is finished the same journey would take three hours, and the whole charge for ourselves and baggage could not exceed ten roubles (£1). en https://archive.org/details/manchurialandofo00newyuoft/mode/2up 1922 Manchuria: Land of Opportunities South Manchuria Railway Thomas F. Logan New York 46 Many sawmills are now in operation at Antung, at the mouth of the Yalu, and at Kirin on the Sungari River. en 30 December 1969 28 December 1969 Kirin Oil Plant Wins Award for Self-Reliance Daily Report: Communist China 251 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049261426&seq=843 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA International Service in English, 1722 GMT, 28 December 1969 31371214 Communist China: Northeast Region G 1 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015049261426&seq=899 During the big leap forward in 1958 the city of Kirin launched a mass movement for developing industry. A disabled armyman named Liu Sheng, who was a deputy to the Chuanying District People's Congress, turned up at the district party committee office to ask for more work so that he could do something for the big leap forward and the socialist construction. References Further reading pn Etymology 2 en Proper noun en. Albanian Proper noun sq noun form m sq Kir def acc s