Meanings
- datedDated form of Jiangyin.
As for the local magistrate of Kiangyin, he had been dismissed on Jones’s request but was being permitted to stay in office long enough to pay the indemnity fine of $9,007.12.
1968, Marilyn B. Young, The Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895-1901, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 842 more examples
Up to recent years, almost the entire peasant labour in Kiangyin was engaged in cereal growing and silkworm raising. […] In recent years, however, due to the drastic drop in cocoon prices and the rapid fluctuation of the prices of wheat and rice, the income of the Kiangyin peasantry has become both risky and meagre.
1935 April 16, Lo Chun, “Women Labour in the Villages of Kiangyin”, in The Eastern Miscellany, volume 32, number 8, Shanghai; reprinted as “Peasant Women and Hand Weaving in Kiangyin”, in Agrarian China: Selected Source Materials From Chinese Authors, London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1939, →OCLC, page 239He worked in secret headquarters at Soochow, with the assistance of German fortifications experts. A plan to reorganize the coastal defense, especially the Yangtze River (originally largely defended by very old guns) at Kiangyin, Chinkiang, and Nanking, was being actively pursued.
1956, F. F. Liu, A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949, Princeton University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 101
Origin
The postal romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 江陰／江阴 (Jiāngyīn).
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