Nan-ch'ang

He spoke of the great demand for books. Had sold as many as fifty Bibles in one day. Has sold Bibles to nearly all the officials in the Nan-ch'ang prefecture and has several orders in hand for books of good binding.

1898 October, “Missionary Conference held at Kuling, Central China, August 22nd to 25th, 1898”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 39, number 10, page 496

The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary—Chang Kuo-t’ao—to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.

[1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924–1927, number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143

The First Army Corps attacked Nanch'ang on August 1, but failed to capture it.[…]In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.

[1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927–1935, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215

On his way there, he learned of the rebellion of the Prince of Ning at Nan-ch'ang and organized forces against that threat, capturing the prince and the town in little more than a month.

1982, John Meskill, Academies in Ming China, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 70

Ch’en struck first at Nan-ch’ang, a strategically important city on the shores of Lake P’o-yang, which emptied into the Yangtze from the south. The Han force was immense – it was later said to have numbered 600,000 men – and it must have seemed invincible.

1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China: 700BC to AD1662, Arms and Armour, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 141