Definition of "Liaoning"

Name of Fengtien province changed to Liaoning.

1929 March 9 , “From the Chinese Press”, in The China Weekly Review‎, volume XLVIII, number 2, page 79, column 1

The course of the Yalu river traverses a track of country ranging from 124 20' to 128 40' E. Long. and from 39 50' to 42 15, N. Lat., the course of its main stream affording a boundary line on the south-western side of Changpai Mountain (長白山), dividing the southern parts of Liaoning Province from the Korean provinces Kankyo Nando (咸鏡南道) and Hsian Hokudo (平安北道).

1931, Wu Lien-teh, editor, Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports 1929-1930‎, volume VII, pages 208–209

Mukden, Liaoning, Manchuria [consular district]All of the Province of Liaoning (Fengtien) except the leased territory of Kwantung; and all that part of the Province of Kirin lying to the south of the parallel of 44° north latitude, including the following places in Kirin which are open to trade: Changchun (Kwanchengtze), Hunchun, Kirin, Lungchingtsun, Towtaokow, Wangching (Paitsaokow), and Yenki (Chützuchieh).

1933, Register of the Department of State‎, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 64

At Lin-hsi in Jehol, Sha-kang in Hsin-min Hsien, Liaoning, and Ang-ang-hsi in Heilungchiang, cultural deposits were found in a black earth layer which lies beneath a yellowish, sandy layer in a black earth layer, making the transition from the semiarid loess stage of teh terminal Pleistocene to the semiarid condition of the present day, probably represents an ancient forest cover.

1971, Alan P. L. Liu, Communications and National Integration in Communist China‎, University of California Press, page 32

By the 1960s Tientsin was the leading chemical manufacturing centre of China, and had become the third ranking industrial region, behind only Shanghai and the central Liaoning province region of southern Manchuria.

1972, “TIENTSIN (T'IEN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎, volume 21, page 1140, columns 1, 2

Indications that the Maoists are tightening their grip on farmers came in a May 7 People's Daily report from a commune at Changwu of Liaoning province.

1976 May 30, L. Chen, “Hua Kuo-feng's grip on farmers”, in Free China Weekly‎, volume XVII, number 21, Taipei, page 3

After living in a village in China’s northeastern Liaoning province for 2 1/2 years, Kim Jungah could no longer bear the possibility of her daughter seeing her dragged away by Chinese authorities.

2017 December 12, Hyung-jin Kim, “AP Exclusive: Sold NKorean brides face hard choices in China”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 12 October 2022‎