Chiang-hsi

A form of Jiangxi — A province in southern China. Capital: Nanchang.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Jiangxi.

    Nos. 88-90 are from the province of Chiang-hsi and have on the reverse in Manchu pao chʻang, the transcript of 寶昌, for the Nan-chʻang-fu mint.

    1880, S. W. Bushell, M.D., “Coins of the present Dynasty of China”, in Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, number XV, American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 203
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    The stone-cutters of Chiang-hsi crawl up the steep mountain sides before sunrise, have their food sent up in buckets, themselves returning after sunset, while all day long through fog and even in the drizzling rain may be heard the steady click of their chisels.

    1912, Arthur Henderson Smith, The Uplift of China, →OCLC, page 41

    Because Huang came from Chiang-hsi (Kiangsi), he and Ch'en, together with twenty-four other poets, were grouped together at the "Chiang-hsi school" in a list compiled by the poet Lü Chü-jen (1137-81).

    1975, Wan-li Yang, translated by Jonathan Chaves, Heaven My Blanket, Earth My Pillow, Weatherhill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 13

    Thus a Mongol legal work, the Ta Yüan Huang-cheng kuo-chʻao tien-chang tsʻung-chi, probably of the early fourteenth century, mentions shai in the two Yüan provinces of Chiang-che and Chiang-hsi which covered Fukien and Kwangtung, while the Yung-cheng edition of the Kwangtung t'ung-chih or provincial gazetteer has a reference to shai under the date 1461.

    1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84

Origin

  1. Mandarin江西
  2. EnglishChiang-hsi

From Mandarin 江西 (Jiāngxī), Wade–Giles romanization: Chiang¹-hsi¹.

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