Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jieyang.
As the Yeh-Ho armies approached Swatow, peasants briefly captured two other county seats, Ch’ao-yang and Chieh-yang, but there was very little coordination between the local forces and the oncoming troops.
1984 [1983], C. Martin Wilbur, The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1552 more examples
A co-operative in the southern part of Chekiang Province claimed a 25 per cent increase of yield of rice per mow in 1953, and another in Chieh-yang county of Kwangtung Province reported an increase of 33 per cent per mow of rice in the same year, as compared with 1952 before the co-operatives came into existence in either locality.
1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “A Chinese Village in Early Communist Transition”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 217Weng was from Chieh-yang county in Kwangtung province, and passed the chin-shih examination in 1526, after which he served for a time as provincial magistrate in Wu-chou in Kwangsi. But his rise to high office began only at the time of the Vietnam campaign in the years 1537-40.
1990, Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125
Origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 揭陽／揭阳 (Jiēyáng) Wade–Giles pronunciation: Chieh¹-yang².
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