Guling

See also: Appendix:Variations of "guling"

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 牯嶺 / 牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: go͞o′lĭng′[1]
  • Hyphenation: Gu‧ling

Proper noun

Guling

  1. 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[1], 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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References

  1. ^ Seltzer, Leon E., editor (1952), “Kuling”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 989, column 1

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