5 examples of chihli in sentences

The Governor General of Chihli (now Hopeithe province in which Peking is situated), Li Hung-chang, was a general who had done good service, but he lost the war, and at Shimonoseki (1895) he had to sign a treaty on very harsh terms, in which China relinquished her protectorate over Korea and lost Formosa.

Should they be held at Shanghai, with the Viceroy from Nanking to assist, or should they be held at Chefoo, with the Viceroy of Chihli (who happened to be the great Li Hung Chang) to help?

Business in the succeeding months frequently took him to Tientsinthe nearest port, eighty miles from Peking, and the post of the Chihli Viceroyand whenever he was there, he had a standing invitation to lunch with Lian invitation which he very often accepted.

The Tientsin branch flourished equally well and became ultimately the Viceroy's band, and the mother of bands innumerable all over the metropolitan province of Chihli.

But soon they were spreading over all the north of China, and even spilling into the metropolitan province of Chihli itself.

5 examples of  chihli  in sentences