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[[underlined]] Chapter X. [[underlined]]    21^[[2]]-a.

  We at once began planning about things to be done during my absence from China. Mr. Wenley was of course to continue his studies in the Chinese language and literature, in which, during the little more than a year since his arrival in China, he had already made gratifying progress. Mr. Ch'iu promised to keep in close touch with conditions in Honan, where, if all went well, we hoped to work in the spring. Mr. Tung I asked to go down to Shasi (Sha Shih, "Sandy Market" [[2 Chinese characters]]), on the Yangtze River, and investigate reports of an ancient deserted city in that vicinity. The site, I learned, was believed to be that of Ying [[Chinese character]], [[superscript]] (191) [[/superscript]] the capital from early in the 7th
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[[superscript]] (191) [[/superscript]] Also called Ching Chou [[2 Chinese characters]]. Ching (lit., "the Jungle" [[strikethrough]] ) [[/strikthrough]],) was the earlier designation of the territory which by Confucian times had come to be called Ch'u. That state, as it withdrew step by step before Ch'in during the second and third quarters of the 3rd century B.C., continued to apply the name Ying to each of its successive capitals. See pp. 142 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] and note 144, on page 143.
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century B.C. until 278 B.C. of the great riverine kingdom of Ch'u, before the latter began its dogged retreat northeastward under relentless pressure from Ch'in. For I thought that should conditions in northern China prove too unfavorable for our work, we might still be able to accomplish something in the basin of the Yangtze. 
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