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Kiukiang
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From the en zh-postal -en 1915 March Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese). https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/ Second Shanghai Far Eastern Geographical Establishment 829435521 32 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/32/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Kiukiang zh 九江 Kiangsi zh 江西 29.42N 116.6 E of the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 九江 Jiǔjiāng, 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
Proper noun
en Jiujiang.
en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/ 1881 Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Bible Society New York 122 https://archive.org/details/annualreportofam65amer/page/122/ On the 31st of July he arrived at Kiukiang, and in August, in company with the Rev. C. V. Hart, Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Mission, visited Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, which had been entered by Protestant missionaries but twice before, and in two days he sold 300 Portions.
en https://archive.org/details/chinainrevolutio0000unse_o0v5/mode 1931 China in Revolution: An Analysis of Politics and Militarism Under the Republic Harley Farnsworth MacNair University of Chicago Press 127 https://archive.org/details/chinainrevolutio0000unse_o0v5/page/126/mode/ As minister of foreign affairs at Nanking, Chiang Kai-shek had appointed Mr. C. C. Wu. The latter became Nanking’s chief negotiator in a conference at Kiukiang, on August 24, with the Hankow left leaders, Wang Ching-wei and Sun Fo, twelve days after Chiang’s resignation. The Kiukiang conference was followed by a series of conferences at Shanghai, during the second week in September, and finally at Nanking in the middle of the month.
en 1981 November 2022 Harned Pettus Hoose ‘I Can Think as the Chinese Do’ https://web.archive.org/web/20220221130225/https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/21/nixon-china-trip-harned-hoose/ 21 February 2022 w:Foreign Policy Here I am, 61 years later, at the place I was born on June 2, 1920. Amazingly, I remember a few features from when I was six. Little has changed—just different neighbors. It is beautiful here. … Am off and down the Mt. to Kiukiang tomorrow.
en https://archive.org/details/nationalistrevol00wilb_0/mode/2up 1984 The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923-1928 C. Martin Wilbur Cambridge University Press 0-521-31864-5 84-9588 246532584 59 https://archive.org/details/nationalistrevol00wilb_0/page/58/mode The city was connected with Kiukiang on the Yangtze by a 79-mile railway. While Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Ch’uan-fang negotiated through representatives, both sides sent troops into the province. The general plan of the National Revolutionary Army was to send forces, which had so far done little fighting, eastwards from Hunan to capture Nanchang, while other units from Hupei would capture the railway and take Kiukiang.
en December 2010 978-1-59328-277-6 A Foreign Devil in China John Pollock World Wide Publications 43 The Bells and Taylors went by launch down the canal to Chinkiang and thence by slow, foreign-owned river steamer some 350 miles up the Yangtze to Kiukiang.
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