Sungkiang

English Etymology From the en zh-postal - of Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 松江, from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 Pronunciation so͞ongʹgyängʹ so͞ongʹjē-ängʹ Proper noun en @dated form of:Songjiang district/and/former county city/Shanghai c/China. en 1809 Chang-hai The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary https://archive.org/details/cihm_32443/ 14th 2 Chang-hai, a town of China, in the province of Kiang-nan. In this town, and the villages dependent on it, are more than 200,000 weavers of cotton cloth. It is 18 miles SE of Song-kiang. on en 1819 w:Abraham Rees CHANG-HAI Rees's Cyclopædia The Cyclopædia ; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature https://archive.org/details/b24991454_0007/ VII 1 CHANG-HAI, a town of China, of the third rank, in the province of Kiang-nan, or Nan-king ; 6 leagues S.E. of Song-kiang. on en https://archive.org/details/churchworldparis0000clar/mode/ 1929 The Church and the World Parish Elmer T. Clark Board of Missions, Methodist Episcopal Church, South Nashville, Tenn. 28 https://archive.org/details/churchworldparis0000clar/page/28/mode Though small in area, the territory occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is perhaps the most important and strategic section of China. It contains Shanghai, the greatest port and commercial center of China, Nanking, the new capital, Soochow, the cultural and educational center, Huchow, the silk city, and the important cities of Changchow, Sungkiang, and Wusih. en https://archive.org/details/japaneseterrorin0000timp/mode/ 1938 Japanese Terror in China H. J. Timperley Modern Age Books, Inc. New York 72 https://archive.org/details/japaneseterrorin0000timp/page/72/mode/ The condition of Sungkiang is typical of the state of affairs throughout this densely populated delta between Shanghai and Nanking, and testifies to what may have been one of the greatest mass migrations of population in history. No one is able to answer the question of what has happened to the hundreds of thousands, or rather millions, of Chinese who have literally disappeared from this area. The whole thirty-mile route between Shanghai and Sungkiang is like a desert, with rice crops ungathered and left rotting in the fields as far as I could see. en 1983 w:Harrison E. Salisbury China: 100 Years of Revolution https://archive.org/details/china100yearsofr00sali/ 0-233-97599-3 1224703068 90 https://archive.org/details/china100yearsofr00sali/page/90/ The streets of Shanghai rattled with revolutionary tremors as Chiang's armies came closer and closer. They entered Chekiang, his home province, and on February 17, 1927, took Hangchow and advanced to Kashing and Sungkiang. They were less than twenty-five miles from Shanghai. en @dated form of:Songjiang former province c/China. en 1948 December Anna Louise Strong Anna Louise Strong Manchurian Empire Tomorrow's China https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058468136 New York Committee For a Democratic Far Eastern Policy 1455599 85 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015058468136&seq=103 Governor Feng Chang-yung, of Sungkiang Province, in which Harbin is located, gave me harsh details of his fighting days. en 1953 w:Frank Moraes "The Land Is Ours" Report on Mao's China https://archive.org/details/reportonmaoschin00mora/ New York The Macmillan Company 1139854 56 https://archive.org/details/reportonmaoschin00mora/page/56/ https://books.google.com/books?id=0jpxAAAAMAAJ China's first two collective farms were reported in the Communist press in the summer of 1952. One is said to be near Kiamusze in Sungkiang province in northeastern Manchuria; the other, near Tihwa in Sinkiang province. en https://archive.org/details/1958worldbookencyclo08chic/mode 1958 The World Book Encyclopedia 8 Field Enterprises Educational Corporation Harbin 3274 https://archive.org/details/1958worldbookencyclo08chic/page/3274/mode/ Before 1905, Harbin was the center of the Russian-controlled part of Manchuria. It still has a large Russian population. In 1949, Harbin became the capital of Sungkiang province. References Further reading