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- noun A
prefecture -level city innorthwestern China , inYunnan province.
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Examples
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"Mingdai Lijiang Mushi Zhuyaoshiji jiqi Zhushu kao" (A study of the major achievements and works by the Mus in Lijiang during the Ming dynasty).
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Centered in Lijiang, the Mu family was acknowledged by the Mongols and the Ming and the Qing courts.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Although there were no Confucian schools in Lijiang native prefecture, the Mus seemed to be well educated according to the Confucian way.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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At the end of the Ming period, when Xu Xiake arrived in Lijiang, where the Naxi (Moxie) people lived, he wrote, The other indigenes are wholly the Moxie.
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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Saves you a day on either end so you could spend an extra day in Lijiang, along the trail, in Zhongdian, or Kunming.
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Note 45: Wang Rao, "Yunnan Lijiang Tubobei Shidu Zaji" (Notes on an old Tibetan inscription tablet found in Lijiang, Yunnan), Tang Yanjiu (Studies on the Tang Dynasty) (Beijing: Beijing University Press 2001), Vol. 7, 421-427. back
Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008
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The Tiger Leaping Gorge, or Hu Tiao Xia, is most easily reached from the city of Lijiang, which is located across the country by plane or train from Beijing or Shanghai.
Hiking China's Yellow Mountain & Tiger Leaping Gorge AP 2011
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The Tiger Leaping Gorge, or Hu Tiao Xia, is most easily reached from the city of Lijiang, which is located across the country by plane or train from Beijing or Shanghai.
Hiking China's Yellow Mountain & Tiger Leaping Gorge AP 2011
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The Tiger Leaping Gorge, or Hu Tiao Xia, is reached most easily from the city of Lijiang, which is located across the country by plane or train from Beijing or Shanghai.
The Seattle Times 2012
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They’d had a nest in a small town called Lijiang, where they’d been feeding on local children.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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