Chiu-chiang

English

Map including 九江 CHIU-CHIANG (KIUKIANG) (walled) (AMS, 1954) →OCLC

Etymology

From Mandarin 九江 (Jiǔjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiu³-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Chiu-chiang

1. Alternative form of Jiujiang
   • 1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan‎^[2], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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, Federic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, 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)‎^[4], Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

Further reading

• “Chiu-chiang or Kiu·kiang”, in The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas‎^[5], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 159, column 2