Meanings
Kienyang1
- datedDated form of Jianyang: a district and former county of Nanping, Fujian, China.
Miss I. B. Ramsay writes from Kienyang that "all the churches in the county have suffered greatly from the depredations of the bandits and Communists. A few Christians have been killed, others carried away captive and held to ransom."
1931, E. F. E. Wigram, “The Fukien Diocese and Mission”, in Weapons that Win: Being the C. M. S. Story of the Year, 1930-31, London: Church Missionary Society, →OCLC, page 1061 more example
Four other Americans are reported to have been at Yenping, two at Kienning and one at Kienyang. The local Chinese authorities, on the request of the American consul, have cooperated in the evacuation of the other Americans in the district who have reached Foochow, the State Department said.
1933 August 30 [1933 August 29], en, “U.S. NAVY TO AID CITIZENS IN CHINA; Consul Asks Protection When Chinese Communists Make Gains in Civil War. JAPAN ALSO SPEEDS SHIPS American Missionaries Trapped in Fukien Province Reported Fleeing to Foochow.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7
Kienyang2
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