Chiu-chiang
English
Etymology
From Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiu³-chiang¹.[1]
Proper noun
Chiu-chiang
- Alternative form of Jiujiang
- 1973, Rozman, Gilbert, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 72-1986, OCLC 251969468, page 235:
- In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing. During the late eighteenth century there were 221 chia (official divisions within the pao-chia system, which reflected population) inside the city and approximately 1,900 chia in the remainder of the hsien, indicating that 10 percent of the hsien population resided in Chiu-chiang city.
- 1975, Wakeman, Jr., Federic, The Fall of Imperial China, →ISBN, LCCN 74-27854, OCLC 715630338, OL 5062579M, page 152:
- On February 18, 1853, Chiu-chiang fell to the rebels, who went on to take Anking. Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion.
- 2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations), Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2002029939, OCLC 50441312, page 67:
- This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chiu-chiang.
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References
- Jiujiang, Wade-Giles romanization Chiu-chiang, in Encyclopædia Britannica