Nan-ch'ang

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English

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Map including NAN-CH'ANG (NANCHANG) (AMS, 1961)

Etymology

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From Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻang¹.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: nänʹchängʹ

Proper noun

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Nan-ch'ang

  1. Alternative form of Nanchang
    • 1898 October, “Missionary Conference held at Kuling, Central China, August 22nd to 25th, 1898”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal[2], volume 39, number 10, page 496:
      He spoke of the great demand for books. Had sold as many as fifty Bibles in one day. Has sold Bibles to nearly all the officials in the Nan-ch'ang prefecture and has several orders in hand for books of good binding.
    • [1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924-1927[3], number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:
      The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary — Chang Kuo-t’ao — to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.]
    • [1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927-1935[4], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215:
      The First Army Corps attacked Nanch'ang on August 1, but failed to capture it. [] In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.]
    • 1980, Meng Han-ch'ing, “The Mo-Ho-Lo Doll”, in J. I. Crump, transl., Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan[5], Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 311:
      It seems my nephew is about to leave here to sell his wares in Nan-ch'ang, and he told me he would come bid me farewell. I wonder why he's not here?
    • 1982, John Meskill, Academies in Ming China[6], University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 70:
      On his way there, he learned of the rebellion of the Prince of Ning at Nan-chʻang and organized forces against that threat, capturing the prince and the town in little more than a month.
    • 1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662[7], Arms and Armour, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 141:
      Ch'en struck first at Nan-chʻang, a strategically important city on the shores of Lake P'o-yang, which emptied into the Yangtze from the south. The Han force was immense- it was later said to have numbered 600,000 men- and it must have seemed invincible.
    • 2005, Nigel Cawthorne, Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots and Dictators[8], New York: Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 158:
      In 1927, Mao and his followers began a series of uprisings, the most notable being the Autumn Harvest Rising when his peasant army held the city of Nan-ch'ang for several days.

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References

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  1. ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China[1], Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 482:The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, [] Nan-ch'ang (Nanchang) 南昌