Citations:Sung

English citations of Sung

• 1954, Herold J. Wiens, Han Chinese Expansion in South China‎^[1], Shoe String Press, published 1967, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 143:

  At present the metropolitan area of Kuang-chou City alone comprises some 1,500,000 people or twice that of the Sung period for all of the two provinces.

• 1968, Herold Jacob Wiens, “K’AI-FENG”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[2], volume 13, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187, column 1:

  K’ai-feng's position halfway between the Shantung and the Honan hills also placed it on the natural route between the Hopeh plain and the Yangtze valey. Its nodal situation favoured its choice as the capital of China for about 200 years during the Five Dynasties (A.D. 907-960) and the Northern Sung (960-1126) when it was known as Pien-liang. Later, K’ai-feng was the centre of imperial road systems and on the main highway running from Peking to Hankow and Kuei-lin in the south.

• 1970 [1968], Shiba Yoshinobu, translated by Mark Elvin, Commerce and Society in Sung China‎^[3], published 1992, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 102:

  Fish were produced in Hu-chou for sale at the Southern Sung capital.

• 1976, W.B.R. Neave-Hill, Chinese Ceramics‎^[4], New York: St. Martin's Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10:

  The Sung dynasty was the great Classical Age and it is on this era that the emphasis in this book falls.

• 1968, Edward S. Aarons, Assignment—Nuclear Nude‎^[5], Fawcett Publications, →OCLC, page 135:

  Today in Peking we repeat a phrase to our allies from the Sung dynasty, seven hundred years old. 'We are as close to you as the lips to the teeth. If the lips are gone, our teeth must chatter with cold.'

• 1987 October 12, Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Code of Honor (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (Science Fiction), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:

  PICARD: Lutan, we are aware of many of your planet's achievements, and its unique similarity to an ancient Earth culture we all admire. On behalf of the Federation, therefore, I would like to present this token of our gratitude and friendship. From China's Sung Dynasty, Fourteenth Century.
  DATA: Thirteenth Century, sir.
  PICARD: Ah yes, indeed.

• 2013 February, Jimmy Stamp, “The History of Rocket Science”, in Smithsonian Magazine‎^[6], archived from the original on 19 May 2014‎^[7]:

  Previous scholarship places the rocket’s origins in China during the Sung dynasty (A.D. 960-1279).