Nanking

nanking Nan-King English thumb|US Army Map of Nan-ching (Nanking) 南京 Etymology From the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect en cmn 南京 -, reinforced by 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 55 https://archive.org/details/mapofchinashan/page/55/ The romanisation adopted isthat used by the Chinese Post Office.Nanking zh 南京 Kiangsu zh 江蘇 32.5 N 118.49E 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 nǎnʹkǐngʹ, en /nænˈkɪŋ/ /nɑnˈkɪŋ/ Proper noun en Nanjing. en https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/ 1655 Bellum Tartaricum The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China F. Alvarez Semedo E. Tyler 256 https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.117169/page/n257/ Wherefore he firſt placed his Court at Nanking nee to the bank of that great River of Kiang, which the Chineſſes,in reſpect of the hugh Mountains of water which it diſcharges into the Ocean, call the Son of the Sea : en https://archive.org/details/b30513017/page/113/ 1706 A Short Description of the Vaſt Empire of China Dionysius Kao London 163 https://archive.org/details/b30513017/page/163/ In China the quantity of Ships is innumerable, as the Sand of the Sea : Thoſe which carry Corn only to Peking amounting to 9999 (*) large Ships, ſufficient to carry above thirty or forty thouſand weight : and their paſſage from Nanking to Peking, being ſeven or eight hundred (†) (Italian) Miles, mostly through Artificial Channels, takes up full ſix Months time.. . .(†)That our Author muſt here be underſtood to intend Italian Miles is beyond all question : For the extent of the whole Empire from the moſt remote part of it the Iſland of Hainan, to that part of it which borders on the Muſcovian Empire, doth not contain about 8 or 900 Leagues or Hours ; nor is the fartheſt part of Nanking, where the River falls into the Sea, above 250 French or common Dutch Miles ; which according to our Author's account make 7 or 800 (Italian) Miles, which word I have therefore ventured to inſert in a Parentheſis. en 1898 Harlan P. Beach Dawn on the Hills of Tʻang https://archive.org/details/dawnonhillsoftan02beac/ New York 1180778842 154 https://archive.org/details/dawnonhillsoftan02beac/page/154/ Chiang-su was the main centre of the great Tʻai Pʻing rebellion, Nanking being the rebel capital from 1853 to 1864. en 1912 w:Herbert A. Giles Hsien Fêng China and The Manchus https://archive.org/details/chinamanchus00gileuoft/ Cambridge History Press 248048757 7036591M 86 https://archive.org/details/chinamanchus00gileuoft/page/86/ By 1857, Imperialist troops were drawing close lines around the rebels, who had begun to lose rather than to gain ground. An-chʻing and Nanking, the only two cities which remained to them, were blockaded, and the Manchu plan was simply to starve the enemy out. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77451/ 1936 The Far East Comes Nearer H. Hessell Tiltman w:Jarrolds 250 Again, while divided counsels no longer exist at Canton, and both Kwangtung and Kwangsi are now under the control of Nanking, the agreement between Nanking and the Kwangsi war lords depends for its success on the spirit in which it is carried out. en https://archive.org/details/beepsflightscrui00holt/ 1939 The Beeps Virginia Holton w:John Day Company New York 133 As my husband's ship stopped for a day or two at Kiu-kiang, Anking, and Wu-hu, enroute to Nanking, I arrived three days before his ship anchored off the bund. en 1942 February 21, 1942 w:Chiang Kai-shek One half of the world's people All We Are and All We Have https://archive.org/details/allweareallwehav0000unse/ New York Chinese News Service 1051617732 11 https://archive.org/details/allweareallwehav0000unse/page/11/ As regards barbarities committed by the Japanese army since our war of resistance, the fall of Nanking in December 1937 is a case in point. Over 200,000 civilians were massacred within one week. en https://archive.org/details/fallofimperialch00wake/ 1975 The Fall of Imperial China w:Frederic Wakeman, Jr. 152 On February 18, 1853, Chiu-chiang fell to the rebels, who went on to take Anking. Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-03-20_24_11/ March 20, 1983 Hainan protest over Teng's economic plans Free China Weekly XXIV 11 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-03-20_24_11/page/n2/ Wang also accused Xu Shiyou Hsu of instigating ranking officers in the Nanking Military District to disobey transfer orders....On Feb. 22, Hsu attended a “Conference on the Development of Socialist Civilization” in Nanking. en March 15, 1996 Michael Evans China offensive cannot be ruled out, experts say w:The Times https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1996UKEnglish/Mar%2015%201996%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2365528%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/ 65,528 0140-0460 502384265 14 Overseas News https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1996UKEnglish/Mar%2015%201996%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2365528%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n13/ 3 The third option would be to mount a missile attack on key targets in Taiwan. Chinese missiles have sufficient range and they would cause considerable damage. They have already demonstrated that their M9 missiles, fired without explosive warheads from a base in the Nanking military district, have been launched successfully, landing inside the two designated target "boxes" northeast and southwest of Taiwan. en JANUARY 29, 2007 James Greenberg Beautifully crafted docu chronicles gruesome massacre https://web.archive.org/web/20230311111509/https://www.reuters.com/article/review-be-review-film-nanking-dc-idUKN2946787420070130 11 March 2023 w:Reuters Reviews News Barely remembered in the West, the rape of Nanking -- then the capital of China -- by the Japanese imperial forces in 1937 stands as a gruesome testimonial to man’s inhumanity to man.Having already annexed Manchuria, Japan started its full-scale attack on the Chinese mainland in summer 1937 with extensive air raids on Shanghai and Nanking. Chinese citizens who had money and most foreigners had fled Nanking before the ground troops arrived that December. en 12/13/2014 China's Xi: Nanjing massacre undeniable https://web.archive.org/web/20160425104411/https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-xi-nanjing-massacre-undeniable/a-18126752 25 April 2016 https://www.dw.com/en/chinas-xi-nanjing-massacre-undeniable/a-18126752 w:Deutsche Welle Asia For the first time on Saturday, China held a national day of remembrance on the 77th anniversary of Japanese atrocities committed in the city of Nanjing in the run-up to World War II. President Xi Jinping led the commemorations in front of a crowd of some 10,000 people, among whom were survivors or relatives of victims of the "Rape of Nanking," a six-week reign of terror during which the Imperial Japanese Army carried out mass killings and rapes. en 2022/3 Referendums Profile https://web.archive.org/web/20230831232705/https://web.cec.gov.tw/english/cms/rProfile 31 August 2023 https://web.cec.gov.tw/english/cms/rProfile Central Election Commission Referendums https://archive.ph/16qIW The ROC Constitution was adopted on December 25, 1946, by the National Assembly convened in Nanking. It was promulgated by the National Government on January 1, 1947, and put into effect on December 25 of the same year. According to Article 174 of the Constitution, amendments to the Constitution shall be proposed and decided by the National Assembly, or proposed by the Legislative Yuan, followed by a referendum by the National Assembly. en February 01, 2023 Khedroob Thondup Taiwan must stand up for itself https://web.archive.org/web/20230201074949/https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2023/02/01/2003793475 01 February 2023 w:Taipei Times 1563-9525 464696902 Editorials 8 According to official KMT records in Nanking, Tibet never paid taxes to the ROC government. en Coordinate terms en Peking Derived terms en nankeen Nanking cherry nankeen heron nankeen kestrel nankeen night heron Nankingese Descendants Translingual: mul nankingensis References Further reading pn Medhurst Walter Henry Walter Henry Medhurst English and Chinese Dictionary https://archive.org/details/englishandchine00medhgoog/page/1104/mode/2up?q=%E4%BA%AC 1848 2 Mission Press Shanghae (Shanghai) 6590623 939 Medhurst Walter Henry Walter Henry Medhurst Chinese and English Dictionary; Containing All the Words in the Chinese Imperial Dictionary, Arranged According to the Radicals https://books.google.com.ph/books?redir_esc=y&id=h380AQAAIAAJ&q=your#v=onepage&q=capital&f=false 1842 1 Parapattan, Batavia (Jakarta) 6