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Jialing

American  
[jyah-ling] / ˈdʒyɑˈlɪŋ /

noun

  1. a river in central China, flowing E and S to the Yangtze River. 695 miles (1,119 km) long.


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The Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, has shrunk in places to less than half the width of its channel through the heart of Chongqing.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

From Wang’s immediate family, she and co-director Jialing Zhang move to people with a broader perspective.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2019

It’s that last question that most distresses and fascinates Nanfu Wang in One Child Nation, the Sundance-winning documentary she directed with Jialing Zhang.

From Slate • Aug. 9, 2019

But Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, the directors of this disturbing, infuriating but scrupulously non-exploitative movie, have a rather different moral purpose in mind.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2019

An army of 6,000 construction workers is hard at work at a large site overlooking the conflux of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2018