Kuei-lin

English thumb|Map including KUEI-LIN (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of the en cmn 桂林 Kuei⁴-lin².Guilin, Wade-Giles romanization Kuei-lin, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 480 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/480/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Kuei-lin (Guilin) zh 桂林 Pronunciation gwāʹlǐnʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Guilin. en https://archive.org/details/vermilionbirdtan00scha/ 1898 Report of the Mission to China of the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce 1896-7 Province of Kwang-si North-east Lancashire Press Company 124 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023448420/page/n146/ We anchored for the night at Pai-sha, a rowdy little place, where they talked of killing us, situated at the point of junction with our stream of a northern tributary, navigable almost to Kuei-lin, the capital of this province. en https://archive.org/details/vermilionbirdtan00scha/ 1967 The Vermilion Bird w:Edward H. Schafer w:University of California Press 67-10463 802763855 5533953M 15 https://archive.org/details/vermilionbirdtan00scha/page/15 One authority of that age tells of the defeat of Man and the Lo-tzu by the partly sinicized soldiers of Ch'u at the end of the seventh century B.C., presumably driving these savages farther south; another T'ang scholar gives the more daring opinion that the natives of Kuei-lin in northern Kwangsi were subject to the Ch'u nation in late Chou times. en 1977 w:Chiang Yee China Revisited https://archive.org/details/chinarevisitedaf00chia/ w:W. W. Norton & Company New York 0-393-08791-3 77-22587 473570033 4553064M 151 https://archive.org/details/chinarevisitedaf00chia/page/151/ YANG SHU-TIEN and I boarded the plane after our arrival in Canton and reached Kuei-lin in the afternoon about three o'clock. Ho Li-chih, from the local China Travel Service, took us to the Kuei-lin Hotel, passing on the way an old wall said to be part of a mansion erected for a prince of the T'ang period. Not far from the old wall, a large, flourishing banyan tree had been left in the middle of the road. Kuei-lin has a subtropical climate and in the early summer everywhere is filled with green tree and red blossoms. en https://archive.org/details/americaninventor0000care/ 2011 An Wang Wang, An American Inventors, Entrepreneurs, and Business Visionaries Charles W. Carey, Jr. Revised w:Infobase Publishing 978-0-8160-8146-2 460053417 399 https://archive.org/details/americaninventor0000care/page/399/ In 1940 he received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Chiao-t'ung University in Shanghai and went to work as an engineer at the Central Radio Works in Kuei-lin. Translations Guilin References Further reading