Meanings
- datedDated form of Jianchang.
On New Year’s Eve in Kienchang, Father Moran was preparing his church for Mass on the next day, a day for which his parishioners had long prepared.
1983, Edward Fisher, “New Ground”, in Maybe a Second Spring: The Story of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban in China, New York: Crossroad, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1052 more examples
We spent the night in a little Catholic village midway between Kienchang and Nan Feng. We decided that I should wait here for some days and that Father Kerr should go on to Kienchang.
1930 March, “"Perils from the Gentiles"”, in The Far East, volume XIII, number 3, Chinese Missionary Society of St. Columban, →OCLC, page 6Action continued the next day at Suichuan. Captain John Stewart led eight P-51 As to Kienchang to make the 76th's first attempt at dive-bombing with their Mustangs.
1994, Carl Molesworth, Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II, Brassey's, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184
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