yangzi

Example Sentences

• "The only armed guards we saw in China were army and militia sentries on duty at public buildings or other important structures, such as the bridge across the Yangzi River at Wuhan."
• "The triple city of Wuhan, capital of Hebei^([sic – meaning Hubei]) province, lies on the middle reaches of the Yangzi River at its confluence with the Han River, and on the main north-south railway linking Peking and Canton."
• "Of his novels, the best known is "Soul Mountain," a long, impressionistic, musing work that arose from a 10-month walking tour Mr. Gao took along the Yangzi River in 1986 following a period of increasing harassment from the Chinese authorities over the content of his plays."
• "The Jingsha^([sic – meaning Jinsha]) River, upriver from the Yangzi, cuts the region in two. The groups on the east side of the river, the NaRu, the Na, and the Nahing, understand one another."
• "The Buddhist monastery Guangjiao (Broad Teaching) for which Langshan was noted can be traced back to the Tang dynasty, when the hill it now stands on was still an island in the Yangzi, and a ferry was used for pilgrimages. Langshan subsequently became one of the earliest small towns in Nantong, for the thousands of visitors who were attracted by the monastery and the vistas of the river demanded restaurants, inns, snack shops, joss stick and candle shops, and other services."
• "Intensively cultivated and denuded of natural vegetation, the huge lowland flood-plains of major rivers, notably the Yellow and Yangzi, are a seemingly endless patchwork of fields."