Chia-hsing

The province also shows a gradual and slow recovery to cultivation of the fertile lands of the province from the fearful desolation wrought by the rebels. In the prefecture of Chia-hsing, for instance, there were formerly more than a million souls; now there are hardly eighty thousand.

1869 March 22, Chr. T. Gardner, “Notes on a Journey from Ningpo to Shanghai”, in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, page 181

Moreover, while Hang-chou benefited greatly from immigration and Chia-hsing and Hu-chou either maintained or improved their academic success, the once dynamic area of Shao-hsiung and Ning-po suffered from considerable emigration and hence contributed significantly to the success of Hang-chou and especially other provinces.

1964, Ping-ti Ho, The Ladder of Success in Imperial China, Science Editions, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 253

Shih Hsün's first attempted suicide, for example, falls on the same day Wang Chung-chao goes to Chia-hsing to visit his ideal love (chapter 3); and Wang's return from Chia-hsing coincides with three events inside and outside of the revolutionary camp: the internal quarrel and disbandment of the "west-side" group as reported to him by Chang Ch'iu-liu, Chang Man-ch'ing's invitation to the debate in his "school" on where the next war will start, and the Tsinan Incident of May 3, 1928, in which Japanese soldiers murdered Chinese civilians in Shangtung^([sic – meaning Shantung]) Province.

1986, Yu-shih Chen, Realism and Allegory in the Early Fiction of Mao Tun, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119