Meaning of Chi-nan | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“Tsi-nan (Chi-nan) City, the terminus of the Shantung Railway, is also an important station on the Tientsin-Pukow Line. While travellers coming to Tsi-nan from Tientsin or Nanking arrive⟳ at Tsinan-fu station, 1 m.N. of Shang-pu (the trading quarter for foreigners and natives), those coming from the direction of Tsing-tau by the Shantung Railway alight at one of the following three stations: (1) the Tsinan station (Pl. C 3), the terminus, situated near Shang-pu and not for from Tsinanfu station (Pl. C 3) of the Tientsin-Pukow Line; (2) the Peikuan station (Pl. H 1) located outside the N. Gate and nearer the city proper; (3) Huangtai station, located outside the E. Gate, where travellers for the regions along the Huang-ho usually leave⟳ the train⟳.”

“Thus far it has been impossible to trace more accurately the development during these five centuries as archeological data, which would have⟳ provided a better basis for study⟳, have⟳ been lacking. It has only been in the last⟳ few years that field work⟳ has given us some necessary information, particularly in Shantung Province, and it may be reasonably anticipated that further studies by the scholar, Wan Hsin-t'ang, from Chi-nan, will throw⟳ much light⟳ on this chapter of Chinese art.”

“1947 Chinese Communist forces under Chen Yi rout the garrison at Chi-nan. The victory opened the road to the vital railroad center of Suchow.”

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