Ningpo, China (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"…the boats used on this route can be fitted luxuriously, and the traveller can go in them all the way from Hangchau to Chinghu, with later references to Fortune’s journey from Ningpo to the Bohea country of Fo-kien."

"The way in which Botero, a compiler in the latter part of the 16th century, speaks of Zayton as between Canton and Liampo (Ningpo), and exporting immense quantities of porcelain, salt and sugar, looks as if he had before him modern information as to the place."

"The life that I knew began in the large house in Ningpo with the cold hallways and tall stairs."

"My mother was a stranger to me when she first arrived at my uncle’s house in Ningpo. I was nine years old and had not seen her for many years."