Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Jingjiang.
The editor of the local history of Ching-chiang county, Kiangsu, related one anecdote which he professed was from his own observation.
1988, Ju-K'ang T'ien, “Widespread Nature of the Cult of Female Marital Fidelity in the Ch'ing Period”, in Male Anxiety and Female Chastity: A Comparative Study of Chinese Ethical Values in Ming-Ch'ing Times, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1362 more examples
Ju-kao, Hsing-hua and Huai-an in northern Kiangsu, Chia-ting and Ching-chiang in southern Kiangsu, and above all, Wu-hu in Anhwei, became important processing centers.
1978, The Cambridge History of China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 506Another example was that of the magistrate of Ching-chiang hsien in Kiangsu, named Huang Shih-pen, a native of Ch'ien-t'ang in Hangchow prefecture, who also purchased mulberry saplings from Hu-chou and tried to teach the local people sericultural techniques from Chekiang.
1981, Lillian M. Li, “Bureaucratic Myths and Sericulture”, in China's Silk Trade: Traditional Industry in the Modern World 1842-1937, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135
Origin
- Mandarin靖江
- EnglishChing-chiang
From Mandarin 靖江 (Jìngjiāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Ching⁴-chiang¹.
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