Referenced In

The Travels of Marco Polo
by Marco Polo, da Pisa Rusticiano

"the river at present spreads over the very low lands of South-Western Shan-tung."

Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler

"In the early l9s9w0hile Iwasincolle ge,Iheardaboutcasesofgrowersdoing someofthis--holdingpeopleagainsttheirwillsand forcni gthemtowork withoutpay.LatinsinCalifornia, blacksandLatinsinthesouth....Nowandthen, someonewouldgotojailforit."

The Sellout
by Paul Beatty

"…if he’d only tasted that unsweetened swill that passed for iced tea at the segregated lunch counters in the South he would’ve called the whole civil rights thing off."