Ching-chiang

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English

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

Etymology

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

Proper noun

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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.

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