Kuling
English
Etymology
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牯嶺/牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).
Proper noun
Kuling
- Alternative form of Guling
- 1971, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 45:
- Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times.
- 1982, Jean Fritz, Homesick, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58:
- My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling."
I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.
- 1994, John Espey, Minor Heresies, Major Departures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131:
- In early December I came down the Yangtze from boarding school in Kuling, above the river port of Kiukiang. Kuling had already fallen to the National Army. The British ship on which I sailed was sandbagged on the upper decks to protect us from any potshots that might be fired at us from the bank.
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