Jiangxia

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See also: jiàngxià

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Etymology

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From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江夏 (Jiāngxià).

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Jiangxia

  1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
    • [1992, Hans Bielenstein, “The Regional Provenance of Chin-shih during Ch'ing”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities[1], number 64, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25:
      Map 17 for 1646-1775 reveals a concentration of chin-shih, centred on Chiang-hsia (modern Wu-ch'ang, part of Wu-han), the important commercial crossroad where the Han River enters the Yangtze from the northwest.]
    • 2015 July 7, Edward Wong, “China Finds Another Real-Life Spinoff of ‘Breaking Bad’”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 September 2022, Sinosphere‎[3]:
      Customs officials and police officers then raided Mr. Zhang’s lab in the Jiangxia district of Wuhan, a provincial capital on the Yangtze River.
    • 2016, Liandong Zhu, Ahmed Ouadha, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 335:
      A comparison of the three maps in Figure 1 shows that the ecological security of Wuhan from 1996 to 2006 deteriorated. However, the trend strengthened from 2006 to 2010. Jiangxia District underwent the most significant changes, transitioning from high-risk to medium-, low- and relatively low-risk.

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