Nei-chiang

English

Map including NEIJIANG (NEI-CHIANG) (DMA, 1988)

Etymology

From Mandarin 內江／内江 (Nèijiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Nei⁴-chiang¹.

Proper noun

Nei-chiang

1. Alternative form of Neijiang
   • 1938 April 5, J. Marvin Weller, edited by Harriet Weller, Caravan Across China‎^[2], San Francisco, CA: March Hare Publishing, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 367, 369:

     By 7:00 P.M. we had traveled 210 kilometers and reached this place, called Nei-chiang, a small inland city boasting electric lights but without other modern conveniences.[...]
     We returned to Nei-chiang in the early afternoon. As it was too late to start out for Chungking, we just sat around here for the rest of the day.

   • [1959, Eleutherius Winance, translated by Emeric A. Lawrence, The Communist Persuasion: A Personal Experience of Brainwashing‎^[3], New York: P. J. Kennedy, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:

     On February 7, 1952, I found myself at the Nei-Chiang railroad station in Szechwan.]

   • 2008, “Court Paintings of The Palace Museum- Beijing”, in Chinese Proverbs: Essence of Ancient Wisdom‎^[4], 4th edition, FormAsia Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 11:

     Chang Dai-chien was born 10 May 1899, in Nei-chiang, Sichuan, the ninth child of a wealthy family, Resisting a business career, he entered a Biddhist monastery before beginning intensive familiarisation with Chinese calligraphy and painting at the age of 19.

Translations

Neijiang — see Neijiang

Further reading

• “Nei-chiang”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.