Kunming Lake

K'un-ming Lake English Alternative forms en K'un-ming Lake Wade-Giles Etymology en cmn 昆明湖 Kunming lake. Proper noun en proper noun Kunming Lake en lake city/Beijing c/China, on the grounds of the Summer Palace. en July 17, 1974 July 16, 1974 Chinese Take to Water To Mark Mao's Swim w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230915200638/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/17/archives/chinese-take-to-water-to-mark-maos-swim.html 15 September 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/1974/07/17/archives/chinese-take-to-water-to-mark-maos-swim.html 0362-4331 1645522 13 At Peking's Kunming Lake, processions of people swam between lines of crowded, flag‐bedecked boats accompanied by martial music on loudspeakers. en 08 August 2013 Patrick Boehler Giant Rubber Duck to swim in Beijing's imperial Summer Palace? w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20130811070819/https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1295227/giant-rubber-duck-swim-beijings-imperial-summer-palace https://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1295227/giant-rubber-duck-swim-beijings-imperial-summer-palace August 11, 2013 1563-9371 648902513 China Insider Beijing's own much anticipated giant yellow duck is set to float on Kunming Lake, news reports said, but organisers have declined to confirm the location and end the recent speculation. en Lake Dian. en 1946 Ta Chen The Beginnings of Modern Demography Population in Modern China https://archive.org/details/populationinmode00chen/ Chicago, Illinois w:University of Chicago Press 253077032 12 https://archive.org/details/populationinmode00chen/page/12/ 1 The Kunming plateau, 1,896 meters above the sea-level, contains lowlands of considerable size and is fairly well irrigated, especially the shore lands of Kunming Lake. For countless decades this region has been devoted to agriculture, and to this day it is considered generally typical of the agricultural regions in the southwest. Translations lakes Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 昆明湖 Kūnmíng Hú Japanese: ja 昆明湖 こんめいこ, Konmei Ko Korean: ko Manchu: mnc ᡴᡠᠨ ᠮᡳᠩ ᡥᡡ ᡨᡝᠩᡤᡳᠨ Further reading Kunming Lake, K'un-ming Lake