Chiu-chiang

English thumb|Map including zh 九江 CHIU-CHIANG (KIUKIANG) (walled) (AMS, 1954) 10552568 Etymology From en cmn 九江, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chiu³-chiang¹.Jiujiang, Wade-Giles romanization Chiu-chiang, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 79-42627 781411242 476, 477 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/477/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Chiu-chiang (Jiujiang) zh 九江 Proper noun 1 1 en Jiujiang. en 1973 w:Gilbert Rozman Regional Variations in Cities Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan https://archive.org/details/urbannetworksinc0000rozm/ Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 0-691-03082-0 72-1986 251969468 235 https://archive.org/details/urbannetworksinc0000rozm/page/235/ In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing. During the late eighteenth century there were 221 chia (official divisions within the pao-chia system, which reflected population) inside the city and approximately 1,900 chia in the remainder of the hsien, indicating that 10 percent of the hsien population resided in Chiu-chiang city. en 1975 Federic Wakeman, Jr. The Fall of Imperial China https://archive.org/details/fallofimperialch00wake/ 0-02-933690-2 74-27854 715630338 5062579M 152 https://archive.org/details/fallofimperialch00wake/page/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 2003 C.J. Shane China https://archive.org/details/china0000unse_m4u0/ The History of Nations w:Greenhaven Press 0-7377-1194-9 2002029939 50441312 67 https://archive.org/details/china0000unse_m4u0/page/67/ This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking. en References Further reading en 1979 Chiu-chiang or Kiu·kiang The International Geographic Encyclopedia and Atlas https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/ Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-27170-3 79-2721 5171913 159 https://archive.org/details/internationalgeo00houg/page/159/ 2