Guling
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English
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 牯嶺／牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).
Proper noun
Guling
- A town in Lushan, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, in eastern China.
- 2022 February 21, Mike Chinoy, quoting Harned Pettus Hoose, “‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 21 February 2022:
- In November 1981, he was touring Jiangsi province to explore investment possibilities and stopped for the night in Guling on Mount Lu. On the evening of Nov. 7, Hoose wrote a sentimental letter to his wife, Georgia. “Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I remember a few features from when I was six. Little has changed—just different neighbors. It is beautiful here. … Am off and down the Mt. to Kiukiang tomorrow.
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guling”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1470, column 3