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Kiangyin
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Etymology
The postal romanization of the en cmn - Chinese pronunciation for 江陰.
Proper noun
en Jiangyin.
en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115112/mode/2up Lo Chun Women Labour in the Villages of Kiangyin The Eastern Miscellany 16 April 1935 32 8 Shanghai reprinted as 1939 Agrarian China: Selected Source Materials From Chinese Authors George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. London Peasant Women and Hand Weaving in Kiangyin 906160364 239 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115112/page/n257/mode Up to recent years, almost the entire peasant labour in Kiangyin was engaged in cereal growing and silkworm raising. […] In recent years, however, due to the drastic drop in cocoon prices and the rapid fluctuation of the prices of wheat and rice, the income of the Kiangyin peasantry has become both risky and meagre.
en 1956 F. F. Liu A Military History of Modern China, 1924-1949 https://archive.org/details/amilitaryhistory0000unse/mode w:Princeton University Press 56-8386 410948 6199583M 101 https://archive.org/details/amilitaryhistory0000unse/page/100/mode/ He worked in secret headquarters at Soochow, with the assistance of German fortifications experts. A plan to reorganize the coastal defense, especially the Yangtze River (originally largely defended by very old guns) at Kiangyin, Chinkiang, and Nanking, was being actively pursued.
en 1968 w:Marilyn B. Young The Rhetoric of Empire: American China Policy, 1895-1901 https://archive.org/details/rhetoricofempire00youn/ Cambridge, Mass. w:Harvard University Press 68-54028 985958195 84 https://archive.org/details/rhetoricofempire00youn/page/84/ As for the local magistrate of Kiangyin, he had been dismissed on Jones’s request but was being permitted to stay in office long enough to pay the indemnity fine of $9,007.12.
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