Kiukiang

English

Etymology

From the Postal Romanization of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/.

Proper noun

Kiukiang

1. Alternative form of Jiujiang
   • 1881, Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Bible Society‎^[2], New York, page 122:

     On the 31st of July he arrived at Kiukiang, and in August, in company with the Rev. C. V. Hart, Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, visited Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, which had been entered by Protestant missionaries but twice before, and in two days he sold 300 Portions.

   • 1931, Harley Farnsworth MacNair, China in Revolution: An Analysis of Politics and Militarism Under the Republic‎^[3], University of Chicago Press, page 127:

     As minister of foreign affairs at Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek had appointed Mr. C. C. Wu. The latter became Nanking’s chief negotiator in a conference at Kiukiang, on August 24, with the Hankow left leaders, Wang Ching-wei and Sun Fo, twelve days after Chiang’s resignation. The Kiukiang conference was followed by a series of conferences at Shanghai, during the second week in September, and finally at Nanking in the middle of the month.

   • 1981 November, Harned Pettus Hoose, “‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’”, in Foreign Policy‎^[4], published 2022, archived from the original on 21 February 2022‎^[5]:

     Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I remember a few features from when I was six. Little has changed—just different neighbors. It is beautiful here. … Am off and down the Mt. to Kiukiang tomorrow.

   • 1984, C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928‎^[6], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

     The city was connected with Kiukiang on the Yangtze by a 79-mile railway. While Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Ch’uan-fang negotiated through representatives, both sides sent troops into the province. The general plan of the National Revolutionary Army was to send forces, which had so far done little fighting, eastwards from Hunan to capture Nanchang, while other units from Hupei would capture the railway and take Kiukiang.

   • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 43:

     The Bells and Taylors went by launch down the canal to Chinkiang and thence by slow, foreign-owned river steamer some 350 miles up the Yangtze to Kiukiang.