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Proper noun
Kanchow
- Obsolete spelling of Ganzhou.
1968, O. Edmund Clubb, Communism in China, as Reported from Hankow in 1932, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:As the result of the combined pressure from the Hunanese and some Kiangsi troops from Kanchow, Chu Teh’s 4th Army retreated south along the Hunan-Kiangsi border in two sections, re-joining somewhere in the region about Takeng (Kiangsi), which it captured.
1973, Rewi Alley, “Kiangsi”, in Travels in China, 1966-71 [中国见闻], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 264:Coming down the highway from Suichuan to Kanchow in south Kiangsi, the last part of the 200 or more kilometres from Kian, one felt somehow that one was coming home, so deeply had incidents in 1938-39 and 1940 when I spent much time here left their mark.