Chinwangtao

Chinwangtao, was equally out of the question, as it was a long and most tedious journey and quite beyond his strength.

Two Years in the Forbidden City Princess Der Ling 1915

These telegrams ordered my father to go to Peking at once, but, as the river to Tientsin was frozen, it was out of the question for us to go by that route, and as my father was very old and quite ill at that time, in fact constantly under the doctor's care, the only accessible way, via Chinwangtao, was equally out of the question, as it was a long and most tedious journey and quite beyond his strength.

Two Years in the Forbidden City 1911