Kiangyin

English

Etymology

The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 江陰／江阴 (Jiāngyīn).

Proper noun

Kiangyin

1. Dated form of Jiangyin.
   • 1935 April 16, Lo Chun, “Women Labour in the Villages of Kiangyin”, in The Eastern Miscellany, volume 32, number 8, Shanghai; reprinted as “Peasant Women and Hand Weaving in Kiangyin”, in Agrarian China: Selected Source Materials From Chinese Authors‎^[1], London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1939, →OCLC, page 239:

     Up to recent years, almost the entire peasant labour in Kiangyin was engaged in cereal growing and silkworm raising. […] In recent years, however, due to the drastic drop in cocoon prices and the rapid fluctuation of the prices of wheat and rice, the income of the Kiangyin peasantry has become both risky and meagre.

   • 1956, F. F. Liu, A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949‎^[2], Princeton University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 101:

     He worked in secret headquarters at Soochow, with the assistance of German fortifications experts. A plan to reorganize the coastal defense, especially the Yangtze River (originally largely defended by very old guns) at Kiangyin, Chinkiang, and Nanking, was being actively pursued.

   • 1968, Marilyn B. Young, The Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895-1901‎^[3], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

     As for the local magistrate of Kiangyin, he had been dismissed on Jones’s request but was being permitted to stay in office long enough to pay the indemnity fine of $9,007.12.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kiangyin.