Ching-chiang

English

Map including CHING-CHIANG (TSINGKIANG) 靖江 (AMS, 1952) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 靖江 (Jìngjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching⁴-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Ching-chiang

1. Alternative form of Jingjiang
   • 1978, The Cambridge History of China‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 506:

     Ju-kao, Hsing-hua and Huai-an in northern Kiangsu, Chia-ting and Ching-chiang in southern Kiangsu, and above all, Wu-hu in Anhwei, became important processing centers.

   • 1981, Lillian M. Li, “Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture”, in China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:

     Another example was that of the magistrate of Ching-chiang hsien in Kiangsu, named Huang Shih-pen, a native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Hangchow prefecture, who also purchased mulberry saplings from Hu-chou and tried to teach the local people sericultural techniques from Chekiang.

   • 1988, Ju-K'ang T'ien, “Widespread Nature of the Cult of Female Marital Fidelity in the Ch'ing Period”, in Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 136:

     The editor of the local history of Ching-chiang county, Kiangsu, related one anecdote which he professed was from his own observation.

Translations

Jingjiang — see Jingjiang