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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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Wide swaths of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, which meet in the city, have dried up, drawing people to the exposed riverbed.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2022

It has been three days since Shang Jialing saw her 7-year-old son swept away in the floods that struck her hometown of Xinxiang.

From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021

Filmmakers Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s documentary “One Child Nation” examines the repercussions of that social experiment.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2020

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

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