Jiang'an
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See also: jiāng'àn
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Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江安 (Jiāng'ān).
Proper noun
Jiang'an
- A county of Yibin, Sichuan, China.
- , “Szechwan Spring Farming”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 71, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Chengtu Szechwan Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: Regional Affairs, page ddd 46:
- The production headquarters of the preparatory group for the Ipin Special District revolutionary committee has sent six propaganda teams of cadres of the agricultural and water conservation offices of the special district into the rural areas to grasp spring farming. The teams solve problems wherever they find them. For instance, in Chiangan County they found that some brigade cadres no longer wanted to be cadres, these cadres were immediately organized to study Chairman Mao's works.]
- , →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 July 2018, Asia Pacific:
- The explosion erupted in an industrial park in Jiangan County, Sichuan Province, at about 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, ]
Further reading
- Jiang'an, Chiang-an at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Jiang’an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1446, column 1
Etymology 2
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 江岸 (Jiāng'àn).
Proper noun
Jiang'an
- A district of Wuhan, Hubei, China, part of Hankou
- , volume XXIII, number 4, Peking, →OCLC, page 32, column 2:
- The General Trade Union of the Peking-Hankow Railroad which organized the strike had its headquarters at the Chiangan Station in Hankow. On February 7, the reactionaries massacred the workers at the station. A memorial hall now stands on the spot. Visitors are invariably moved by the words which Lin Hsiang-chien, chairman of the Chiangan branch of the union and strike leader, spit in the face of his executioners, “You can chop my head off or bleed me to death, but the strike will not be called off!”]
- 1983, Yu-Chien Kuan, Petra Häring-Kuan, Magnificent China: A Guide to Its Cultural Treasures , 1st American edition, San Francisco: China Books & Periodicals, Inc, published 1987, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 300, column 1:
- On February 7th, Wu Peifu put a savage end to the strike. The most serious conflicts were concentrated in Zhengzhou, Jiang'an in Hubei and Changxindian in Beijing.
- 1991, Hans J. Van de Ven, From Friend to Comrade: the Founding of the Chinese Communist Party, 1920-1927, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112:
- Several bang provided the labor for the Peking-Hankow Railroad. In the workshop in Jiang'an near Hankow, for instance, workers belonged either to the Hubei, Tianjin, or Guangdong bang.⁵⁹
- 1995, Shaoguang Wang, Failure of Charisma: the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 24:
- Hankou’s industries were concentrated either on the outskirts of Jiang’an District or in Qiaokou District.
- 2010 November 26, “Talent show star killed in plastic surgery mishap”, in Beijing Today, number 494, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
- Wang Bei, once a contestant on the popular talent show Super Girl, died November 15 while under anesthesia, said a spokesman for the health bureau of Jiang’an District, Wuhan City.