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Page 167
... Huang , Pinyin CHENG HUANG ( Chinese : Wall and Moat ) , in Chinese mythol- ogy , the spiritual magistrate and guardian deity of Chinese cities . Because dead spirits re- putedly informed the god of all good and evil deeds within his ...
... Huang , Pinyin CHENG HUANG ( Chinese : Wall and Moat ) , in Chinese mythol- ogy , the spiritual magistrate and guardian deity of Chinese cities . Because dead spirits re- putedly informed the god of all good and evil deeds within his ...
Page 188
... Huang Ho ( river ) , which provides the ma- jor route along the north side of the Shantung Hills . Well watered from natural springs , the area was settled in early times . From the 8th cen- tury BC it was the site of Li - hsia , a ...
... Huang Ho ( river ) , which provides the ma- jor route along the north side of the Shantung Hills . Well watered from natural springs , the area was settled in early times . From the 8th cen- tury BC it was the site of Li - hsia , a ...
Page 220
... huang - tao was only a minor fishing village until the end of the 19th century . Its growth resulted from the de- velopment of the K'ai - luan coal mines , some 75 miles ( 120 km ) to the southwest at T'ang- shan in the early 1880s . By ...
... huang - tao was only a minor fishing village until the end of the 19th century . Its growth resulted from the de- velopment of the K'ai - luan coal mines , some 75 miles ( 120 km ) to the southwest at T'ang- shan in the early 1880s . By ...
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