Kiangsi

English

Map including part of 江西省 KIANGSI PROVINCE (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• enPR: kyǎngʹsēʹ, jē-ängʹsēʹ

Proper noun

Kiangsi

1. Dated form of Jiangxi.
   • 1655, F. Alvarez Semedo, “Bellum Tartaricum”, in The History of That Great and Renowned Monarchy of China‎^[1], E. Tyler, page 290:

     But whilſt he was beſieging this City, there came, unfortunately, a new Army of Tartars from the Imperiall City of Peking , which had order to recover this Province of Kiangſi; and therefore Kinus was forced to raiſe his Siege to oppoſe their entrance by the Northern parts of the Country;

   • 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China‎^[2], London: John Macock, page 67:

     The next day, being the 23. of April, we came in ſight of the firſt chief City of Nanchang, which is alſo called by ſome according to the name of the Province Kiangſi, where this is ſituated.

   • 1693, Robert Morden, “Of China”, in Geography Rectified; or a Description of the World‎^[3], 3rd edition, page 440:

     Kiangſi is divided into thirteen Countries, containing 67 Cities ; the chief whereof is Nanchang , once the Metropolis of the Empire : Iaocheu, Quansin, Kicukiang, Kienchang, Linkiang, Kiegan, Kancheu, are other chief Cities.

   • 1881, Sixty-Fifth Annual Report of the American Bible Society‎^[4], New York, 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.

   • 1952, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover‎^[5], New York: Macmillan Company, published 1963, →OCLC, page 364:

     In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek led a military rebellion which defeated Mao Tse-tung and other Communist Chinese leaders. The Communist forces withdrew into Kiangsi province and established a Soviet state from which they continued to harass the country.

   • 1958, Albert Feuerwerker, China's Early Industrialization‎^[6], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 68:

     Under Sheng's control, the P'ing-hsiang Coal Mines in Kiangsi were developed as a source of coking coal for the ironworks, in part with funds borrowed from Sheng's other enterprises and in part with loans from the German firm of Carlowitz and Company.

   • 1962, Carsun Chang, The Development of Neo-Confucian Thought‎^[7], volume 2, Bookman Associates, page 114:

     At this time Wang Shou-ken, while governor of Kiangsi province, was discussing philosophical problems related to his theory of liang-chih. He already had many followers south of the Yangtze, but Wang Ken in far off T'ai-chou knew nothing about this.

   • 1976 November 28, “Kiangsi army split into two”, in Free China Weekly‎^[8], volume XVII, number 47, Taipei, page 3:

     The Chinese Communist army in Kiangsi province has split into two factions struggling against each other following the purge of the "gang of four" led by Chiang Ching, according to an intelligence report from the Chinese mainland.
     . . .
     The expert pointed out that the struggle between the two rival factions became more intensified when the radio station of Kiangsi province broadcast on Nov. 14 that "Chiang Ching's gang in the military has caused serious damage to the revolution and production lines."

   • 1982, John Meskill, Academies in Ming China‎^[9], University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 111:

     Liu was a man of An-fu, Kiangsi, a follower of Tsou Shou-i and later a student under Liu Yang.

   • 1991, Richard Louis Edmonds, edited by Alfreda Murck and Wen C. Fong, Words and Images : Chinese Poetry, Calligraphy, and Painting (The Changing Geography of Asia)‎^[10], Metropolitan Museum of Art, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

     Wu Yüeh, a distant relative of Wang An-shih 王安石 (1021-86), was active from the late years of Hui-tsung's regin into Kao-tsung's, serving his last post as grand custodian in Shang-jao, Kiangsi.

   • 2016, Elliot Liu, Maoism and the Chinese Revolution‎^[11], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page [12]:

     The Long March took over a year to complete and consisted of a series of maneuvers stretching thousands of kilometers. The party traveled from Kiangsi to the remote areas of Yunan^{[sic – meaning Yunnan]} and Xikang before finally establishing a new base area in northwestern China centered in the city of Yenan.

References

• “Kiangsi”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Kiangsi, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Kiangsi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kiangsi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.