Jiangnan

Jiāngnán English right|thumb|300px|The Jiangnan region under its various definitions thumb|right|300px|Jiangnan Province—as "Nanking or Kiangnan"—from Martino Martini's 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis Alternative forms en Kiamnan Kimnan obsolete en Kiangnan, en Kiang-nan en Chiang-nan Chiangnan Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn-pinyin Jiāngnán, from the en cmn - pronunciation of en zh 江南 [Place] South of the [Yangtze] River, from Classical Chinese use of zh 江 as a proper name for the Yangtze. Pronunciation en /d͡ʒɑŋ.nɑn/ jyäng′nän′Kiangnan or Chiang-nan 941 3 en Jiang nan Proper noun A roughly defined area of China always including the lands south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze in Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, and northern Zhejiang, sometimes inclusive of its cultural sphere north of the river and sometimes extending south as far as Guangdong. en 1976 w:Wen Fong Introduction: Mountains and Rivers Remain Returning Home: Tao-chi's Album of Landscapes and Flowers https://archive.org/details/returninghome00shit/ New York w:George Braziller 0-8076-0827-0 76-15911 2283935 16 https://archive.org/details/returninghome00shit/page/16/ They traveled northeast along the Hsiang River, on foot and by boat, then turned east from northern Hunan into Kiangsi and Anhwei, reaching the heart of the Chiangnan region (south of the Yangtze River). For the next ten years they journeyed all over Chiangnan, stopping at the famous religious shrines and scenic sites. on en 1997 R. Bin Wong Confucian Agendas for Material and Ideological Control in Modern China Culture & State in Chinese History: Conventions, Accommodations, and Critiques https://archive.org/details/culturestateinch0000unse/ Stanford, CA w:Stanford University Press 0-8047-2867-4 97-6109 1014958176 7929010M 320 https://archive.org/details/culturestateinch0000unse/page/320/ Jiangnan elites were those least affected by the bureaucratic changes of the eighteenth century; the shared agenda of local order was met by elites in Jiangnan with little official intervention, even in the eighteenth century. When the eighteenth-century system fell apart, a Jiangnan style of social order in which elites, sometimes with local official involvement, created local institutions without vertically integrated bureaucratic oversight appears to have become more common. en SEPTEMBER 27, 2016 The Best Cookbooks of Fall 2016 w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160930032028/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/28/dining/best-cookbooks.html 30 September 2016 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/28/dining/best-cookbooks.html 0362-4331 1645522 Cookbooks For her latest, Fuchsia Dunlop, a British cook and food writer who has been studying Chinese cooking since the mid-1990s, dives deep into the balanced flavors of Jiangnan, the region in eastern China that includes the nation’s largest city, Shanghai. en historical en province of Qing-era c/China, now divided into Jiangsu and Anhui. en 1972 Conditions of Rice Culture: Labor Requirements and Land Tenure Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China https://archive.org/details/agriculturalchan0000raws/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 0-674-01210-0 77-173407 258295 13 https://archive.org/details/agriculturalchan0000raws/page/13/ The reason Hunan’s rich soils did not produce rice yields to match those of the “barren” lands of Fukien and Chekiang was because manpower was scarce in Hunan. Rice could not be grown with the same care found in the two densely populated Chiangnan provinces. on en 1993 Linda Cooke Johnson Preface Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China SUNY Series in Chinese Local Studies https://archive.org/details/citiesofjiangnan0000unse/ Albany w:State University of New York Press 0-7914-1424-8 92-14140 25710679 ix https://archive.org/details/citiesofjiangnan0000unse/page/n12/ The term underwent several stages of modification in the period between Tang and Qing; in the first part of the Qing it was briefly revived as the name of Jiangnan province, but in province form Jiangnan lasted only a short while, for in the Kangxi reign it was divided again into the two modern entities of Anhui and Jiangsu. Synonyms en Nanjing informal, en Nanzhili imprecise Translations area in China, former province of the Qing Empire Chinese: Cantonese: yue 江南 Mandarin: cmn 江南 Jiāngnán Japanese: ja 江南 こうなん, Kōnan Korean: ko ^강남(江南) Manchu: mnc ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩᠨᠠᠨ, mnc ᡤᡳᠶᠠᠩ ᠨᠠᠨ Polish: pl Jiangnan m-in Vietnamese: vi Giang Nam See also en Gangnam References Further reading Jiangnan, Chiang-nan, Kiangnan, Kiang-nan en 1998 Jiangnan Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1446 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1446/ 2 Also known as Nanjing. en terms derived from Mandarin