Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Guling.
Kuling perched dramatically above a gorge of the Yangtze which could be seen far below, the view being rather like that from Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga or Murren in Switzerland, magnified several times.
1971, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, Minneapolis: World Wide Publications, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 452 more examples
My father put down his razor and straightened his face. "I've been meaning to tell you," he said. "We can't go to Peitaiho this summer, Jean. We'll be going to Kuling." I couldn't believe it. There he was with soap over one half of his face, saying Kuling, not Peitaiho, just as if he were saying cornflakes, not Grape-Nuts.
1982, Jean Fritz, Homesick, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 58In early December I came down the Yangtze from boarding school in Kuling, above the river port of Kiukiang. Kuling had already fallen to the National Army. The British ship on which I sailed was sandbagged on the upper decks to protect us from any potshots that might be fired at us from the bank.
1994, John Espey, Minor Heresies, Major Departures, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 131
Origin
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 牯嶺／牯岭 (Gǔlǐng).
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