Gulf of Chihli

English Proper noun Gulf of Chihli 1 en dated en Bohai Sea. en https://www.jstor.org/stable/208654?seq=5#metadata_info_tab_contents Carl Whiting Bishop Geographical Factor in the Development of Chinese Civilization Geographical Review 1922 12 1 29 https://archive.org/details/selectedarticles0000john_q4x0/page/24/mode/ In the opposite direction the farthest outposts of Chinese civilization were located on either side of the mouth of the Hwang Ho, which then entered the Gulf of Chihli near the modern Tientsin. en https://archive.org/details/eastagainnarrati00harr/mode/ Walter B. Harris East Again: the Narrative of a Journey in the Near, Middle and Far East E. P. Dutton & Co. New York 1934 221 https://archive.org/details/eastagainnarrati00harr/page/220/mode/ In 1897 the Germans occupied Kiaochow, while Russia acquired Port Arthur and Talienwan in the Kwantung Peninsula in the Gulf of Chihli and obtained the extension of her railway concession from China in order to link up Harbin in the north with Port Arthur. en https://archive.org/embed/poemsofliho791810000jdfr/mode/ J. D. Frodsham The Poems of Li Ho (791–817) Clarendon Press Oxford 1970 107 https://archive.org/embed/poemsofliho791810000jdfr/page/107/mode/ At dusk new butterflies go stray in the trees, Fading, a female rainbow longs for a vanished male. Long ago, a bird tried to fill in the Gulf of Chihli, Today an old man tunnels the K‘ung-t‘ung hills. lzh:晚樹迷新蝶，殘霓憶斷虹。古時填渤澥，今日鑿崆峒。