Jiangxia

See also: jiàngxià

English

Alternative forms

• Chiang-hsia (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江夏 (Jiāngxià).

Proper noun

Jiangxia

1. A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China.
   • [1992, Hans Bielenstein, “The Regional Provenance of Chin-shih during Ch'ing”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities‎^[1], number 64, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25:

     Map 17 for 1646-1775 reveals a concentration of chin-shih, centred on Chiang-hsia (modern Wu-ch'ang, part of Wu-han), the important commercial crossroad where the Han River enters the Yangtze from the northwest.]

   • 1995 September 20 [1995 August 26], “Yang Yongliang, Deputy Secretary of the Hubei Provincial CPC Committee, Stresses the Need To Bring Suburban Areas' Advantages Into Play and To Build Modern Agriculture Models at the Provincial Conference on Suburb- Based Agricultural Economic Work Held in Wuhan 22-24 August”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-182, sourced from Wuhan HUBEI RIBAO pp 1, 2, translation of original by E Xuesheng (6759 1331 0524) [鄂学胜] (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, Economic Affairs, page 34, column 2:

     After three days in session, the first provincial conference on suburb-based agricultural economic work ended in the Jiangxia District of Wuhan City on 24 August.

   • 2015 July 7, Edward Wong, “China Finds Another Real-Life Spinoff of ‘Breaking Bad’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 September 2022, Sinosphere‎^[3]:

     Customs officials and police officers then raided Mr. Zhang’s lab in the Jiangxia district of Wuhan, a provincial capital on the Yangtze River.

   • 2016, Liandong Zhu, Ahmed Ouadha, editors, Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Sustainable Development‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 335:

     A comparison of the three maps in Figure 1 shows that the ecological security of Wuhan from 1996 to 2006 deteriorated. However, the trend strengthened from 2006 to 2010. Jiangxia District underwent the most significant changes, transitioning from high-risk to medium-, low- and relatively low-risk.

Translations

district in central China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 江夏 (zh) (Jiāngxià)

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can