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Kweilin

British  
/ ˈkweɪˈlɪn /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Guilin

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This time the threat to Kweilin was more serious than before.

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That time the Fourteenth Air Force's big Kweilin base had been stripped and partly scorched.

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Among the fantastic mountain shapes of Kweilin spread even more fantastic rumors: the sour-tasting new soy sauce is said to be made from human hair.

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Kweilin, the "Paris of China," was close to panic again.

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They are my mother’s twin daughters from her first marriage, little babies she was forced to abandon on a road as she was fleeing Kweilin for Chungking in 1944.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan