Yangtse

The upper Yangtse is navigable by Chinese boats, but not till late years have they had anything but light draught steamers, and those have not been a success.

Some of China's Problems 1919

Simple: Nanking was under siege, the Yangtse was a damned dangerous river, and they'd have had to run the stuff through Shanghai, where there'd have been a far greater risk of detection.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Simple: Nanking was under siege, the Yangtse was a damned dangerous river, and they'd have had to run the stuff through Shanghai, where there'd have been a far greater risk of detection.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

Simple: Nanking was under siege, the Yangtse was a damned dangerous river, and they'd have had to run the stuff through Shanghai, where there'd have been a far greater risk of detection.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

The first essential for shooting-trips up the Yangtse is a good house-boat or light draft yacht of from ten to fifteen tons, into which you pack every requisite, and which is in reality your floating shooting-box for the time being.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

The one is from the seaboard, entering China by the chief navigable rivers, notably the Yangtse, which is the main artery of China, and the West

China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890

Ah Kim had been so beaten ever since he was a boy, when he lived on the high banks of the eleventh cataract of the Yangtse river.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

The manager offered to raise him to sixty fold, which, by the year, would constitute a fabulous fourteen hundred and forty trade, or seven hundred times his annual earning on the Yangtse as a two-legged horse at one-fourteenth of a gold cent per junk.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

A Cantonese or Yangtse family could live on the waste of an Hawaii coolie.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010

On this sum he could have gone back to the Yangtse and retired for life a really wealthy man.

THE TEARS OF AH KIM 2010