Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jiangjin.
With some slight changes in percentages, this description may hold for Chiang-chin county in Szechwan during the nineteenth century.
1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2192 more examples
He then moved from Nanking to Wuhan and finally to Chungking, but when his health deteriorated, he went to Chiang-chin, a small village near Chungking, for recuperation. There he died on 27 March 1942.
1986, Wen-shun Chi, “Ch’en Tu-hsiu (1879-1942)”, in Ideological Conflicts in Modern China: Democracy and Authoritarianism, published 1992, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 202In 1940, we launched three national middle schools for overseas Chinese in Paoshan of Yünnan Province, Chiang-chin of Szechuan, and Yo-ch’ang of Kwangsi and two normal schools for training overseas Chinese teachers in Fukien and Kwangtung provinces.
1994, “Wartime Education Minister January 1938-December 1944”, in The Storm Clouds Clear Over China: The Memoir of Chʻen Li-fu, 1900-1993, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164
Origin
- Mandarin江津
- EnglishChiang-chin
From Mandarin 江津 (Jiāngjīn), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹-chin¹.
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