It was a whole day's journey from I-ch'eng to Chü-wo which, in turn, is about 60li east of Chiang Chou — one of the most important cities in southern Shansi and a center for curio-dealers.
Then he tried to run away. He wanted to get to Yulin, 240li away, or to Hengshan, 120li away.
1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor,The People of Taihang[3], White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC,page79:
In a village some tenli from ours, because of difficulties caused by natural calamity, some farmers sold the land that had been distributed to them during the Land Reform movement.
While scaling the Laoyeling Mountains, the Chinese Worker-Peasant Red Army, under the command of Mao Ze-dong and Zhu De, was successfully stepping up the historic 25 000-li Long March in China proper, breaking through the surrounding rings formed by Chiang Kai-shek’s army.
1999 [1994], Zou Heng (邹衡), “The Early Jin State Capital Discovered: a Personal Account”, in Roderick Whitfield,Wang Tao, transl.,Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art[5], Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing,→ISBN,→OCLC,page106:
In 1979, while we were conducting our archaeological work in Yucheng and Quwo, Shanxi province, I noticed another historical record in theKuodizhi (a comprehensive account of geography written in 641), which stated that "the ancient city of Tang was 20li west of Yuchengxian in Jiangzhou."
2000,Chen Shui-Bian, “Learning and Transformation”, in David J. Toman, transl.,The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan[6], Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd.,→ISBN,→OCLC,page40:
The two gods who accompany Matsu, one with eyes that can see 1000li⁶ and the other with ears that can hear far over the horizon, represent empathy, observation, and feeling. Government should be like Matsu, equipped with acute powers of observation; see clearly to the bottom of issues, and know how to respond.
