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Ninghsia
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en Ningxia.
en 1914 Li Ung Bing The Ming Dynasty (Continued) Joseph Whiteside Outlines of Chinese History https://archive.org/details/outlinesofchines00liun/ Shanghai w:The Commercial Press 1687715 251 https://archive.org/details/outlinesofchines00liun/page/251/ Accordingly an army was sent into Corea. It met the Japanese before the walls of Pʻing Jang (zh 平壤), where it was annihilated and its commander, Tsu Chʻêng-hsun, (zh 祖承訓), barely escaped with his life. The next Chinese army under the command of Li Ju-sung (zh 李如松), fresh from a successful campaign against a Mongol rebel in Ning Hsia (zh 甯夏), gained a victory over the Japanese in Pʻing Jang; but, elated by this success, the Chinese general allowed himself to be led into an ambuscade near Seoul and overthrown (1593). on
en https://archive.org/details/northamreview226miscrich/ 1928 The Danger Line in the Far East w:North American Review w:Owen Lattimore New York 226 492 THERE is only one way in which open competition could be established once more in the interior markets which are accessible to Russia. That would be by constructing a railway into Kansu Province, either by completing the present branch line from the Pekin-Hankow line through Shensi, or by continuing the Pekin-Suiyuan line, which now stops at the Yellow River, up past Ninghsia to Lanchow.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-06-04_19_22/ June 4, 1978 More anti-Red posters Free China Weekly XIX 22 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1978-06-04_19_22/page/n2/ Wall posters written by anti-Communist organizations formed by Moslem people in the North China mainland province of Ninghsia cropped up one after the other in early last April, accusing the Chinese Communists of persecuting the Moslem people and calling on the people to join guerrilla forces in the mountains, according to intelligence reports from the area.[...]According to residents of Yinchuan City, capital of Ninghsia, some 1,000 educated Moslem youths have gone up the Yun Wu Mountains and are ready to sabotage Communist farm facilities at any time.
en 1979 Murray L. Eiland Chinese and Exotic Rugs https://archive.org/details/chineseexoticrug0000eila/ w:Little, Brown and Company 0-8212-0745-8 79-11744 906309500 6 https://archive.org/details/chineseexoticrug0000eila/page/6/ The Hui now number about three and half million and live mostly in the Ninghsia autonomous area and in smaller autonomous areas in Kansu, Sinkiang, and several of the southern provinces.
en 2010 Jeanne Matthews Bones of Contention https://archive.org/details/bonesofcontentio0000matt/ 978-0-373-26889-4 958280380 168 https://archive.org/details/bonesofcontentio0000matt/page/168/ "Oh, I trekked through Burma and across the Gobi, photographed some camel races for National Geographic. I lived for a year in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, but it started to get too touristy. I moved on to Ninghsia where I entered a Buddhist monastery as a novitiate monk."
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