Ningpo

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Ningpo

  1. Alternative form of Ningbo, a port-city, prefecture-level city and subprovincial city in Zhejiang, China.
    • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, page 229:
      In Ningpo, the ninth City of the Province of Chekiang, both ſides of the Artificial Rivers, for ſeveral miles together, are made up with Stone : At the end of every River lyes a Sluce, through which all Veſſels muſt paſs before they come into it.
    • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of the Chinese People's Republic, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 153:
      In the Lower Yangtze plain section of Chekiang, rice is associated with winter wheat and with silk and cotton. Cotton is also cultivated-on the south shore of Hangchow Bay, chiefly around Yüyao, from where it is shipped to Shanghai and Ningpo.
    • 1986, James H. Cole, Shaohsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century China, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:
      The Shang-yü gazetteer describes the increasing unruliness of tenants from the Opium War period on, and rather disingenuously places all the blame on the unrest stirred up by the British invasion of Ningpo at that time.
    • 2006 October 28, “Obituaries”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2023:
      She grew up in Chevy Chase; Long Beach, Calif.; Ningpo, China; and Geneva as the family moved because of her father's Navy assignments.
    • 2018, Paul French, City of Devils, Picador, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 51:
      The men from Ningpo who'd moved to Shanghai and created banking empires are just the type of bankers Jack likes: tight-lipped.
    • 2018 October 17, Mark Ives, “Overlooked No More: Yamei Kin, the Chinese Doctor Who Introduced Tofu to the West”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2018, Obituaries‎:
      Yamei Kin was born in 1864 in the eastern Chinese city of Ningpo, now called Ningbo, to a Chinese pastor and his wife, according to an annotated bibliography of Kin’s life that was published in 2016 by the SoyInfo Center in California.
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