Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jinjiang.
Another report said some people in Chinchiang in Fukien province saw Lt. Col. Fan flying along the seashore in the wrong direction and decided something must be happening.
1977 September 25, “Reds reported shocked by Fan's defection to Taiwan”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 38, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, columns 1, 22 more examples
In the 12th century the government of the Southern Sung dynasty declared that the Penghu Islands (including Taiwan) would be administered by Chinchiang county, Fukien province, just as Hainan Island in China’s southern territorial waters is a part of Kwangtung province.
1971 December, “Taiwan is an Integral Part of China”, in China Reconstructs, volume XX, number 12, Peking, →OCLC, page 8, column 3Jacques Amoyt in his volume The Manila Chinese traced Fukienese in the Philippines as originating from six hsien - Chinchiang, Nanan, Huian, T'ungan, Anch'i and Yungch'un and from the cities of Amoy (Hsiamen) and Chinchiang, formerly known as Ch'uanchou. Chinchiang hsien alone contains the ancestral homes of at least 50 percent of the emigrants.
寶島
1976, Robert J. Bolton, “The Minnan Chinese - An Overview A Vignette”, in Treasure Island: Church Growth Among Taiwan's Urban Minnan Chinese [寶島], South Pasadena, Cali.: William Carey Library, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 20
Origin
- Mandarin晉江 /晋江
- EnglishChinchiang
From Mandarin 晉江 /晋江 (Jìnjiāng) Wade–Giles romanization: Chin⁴-chiang¹.
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