Kiamusze

Kiamusze

English

Map including CHIA-MU-SSU (KIAMUSZE) (AMS, 1955)

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 佳木斯 (Jiāmùsī).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyäʹmo͞oʹso͝oʹ, jē-äʹmo͞oʹso͝oʹ

Proper noun

Kiamusze

1. Dated form of Jiamusi.
   • 1945 August 23, “Red Commanders in Manchuria”, in The Bombay Chronicle‎, page 5:

     A dispatch from Kiamusze on the lower Sungari river revealed that hero of the Soviet Union Lt. Znamensky has been appointed City Kommandant. He is appointing new administrators replace those of the Japanese.

   • 1953, Frank Moraes, Report on Mao's China‎, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 56:

     China's first two collective farms were reported in the Communist press in the summer of 1952. One is said to be near Kiamusze in Sungkiang province in northeastern Manchuria; the other, near Tihwa in Sinkiang province.

   • 1976, Jacques Guillermaz, Anne Destenay, transl., The Chinese Communist Party in Power, 1949-1976‎, New York: Westview Press, Inc., →ISBN, LCCN 76-7593, OCLC 2119404, page 431:

     Fighting also occurred at Kunming in Yunnan at the end of May and the beginning of June, at Changsha in Hunan, where several dozen people were reported killed on June 8, in the provinces of the Northeast and particularly at Changchun and Kiamusze.

Further reading

• “Kiamusze”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary