But the value of these terms is reckoned in Chen, and changes with almost every district.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
A visit to the local mint in Urumtsi revealed to us the primitive method of making the Chen, or money-disks before mentioned.
"Across Asia on a Bicycle"
Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
"Sun Chen, your venerated sire, will become an agile grasshopper; your incomparable grandfather, Yuen, will have the similitude of a yellow goat; as a tortoise your leisurely-minded ancestor Huang, the high public official-" "Forbear!"
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc