Gulf of Chihli

English[edit]

(dated) Synonym of Bohai Sea
- 1922, Carl Whiting Bishop, “Geographical Factor in the Development of Chinese Civilization”, in Geographical Review‎^[1], volume 12, number 1, page 29:
  In the opposite direction the farthest outposts of Chinese civilization were located on either side of the mouth of the Hwang Ho, which then entered the Gulf of Chihli near the modern Tientsin.
- 1934, Walter B. Harris, East Again: the Narrative of a Journey in the Near, Middle and Far East‎^[2], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., page 221:
  In 1897 the Germans occupied Kiaochow, while Russia acquired Port Arthur and Talienwan in the Kwantung Peninsula in the Gulf of Chihli and obtained the extension of her railway concession from China in order to link up Harbin in the north with Port Arthur.