Lishui
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Lishui
- A prefecture-level city in Zhejiang, China.
- 1938 March, “News from China”, in China Magazine, volume XIX, number 3, page 40:
- In a United Press despatch appearing in the Toronto papers about the middle of February it was stated that the Japanese had bombed an airdrome in Lishui, Chekiang, the headquarters of many Canadian Catholic missionaries. Apart from that despatch, no intimation has come to us at the seminary that trouble has developed in Lishui.
- 2011 November 8, James Pomfret, “China property developer sentenced to death-report”, in Paul Tait, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
- Ji Wenhua was sentenced to death on Monday by Lishui intermediate court in Zhejiang for illegally raising 5.5 billion yuan ($867 million) between 2003 and 2008, the South China Morning Post reported. He was also separately accused of fraud worth some 1.47 billion yuan ($231.6 million).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lishui.
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lishui”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1750, column 3
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