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Proper noun
Kienchang
- Dated form of Jianchang.
1930 March, “"Perils from the Gentiles"”, in The Far East, volume XIII, number 3, Chinese Missionary Society of St. Columban, →OCLC, page 6:We spent the night in a little Catholic village midway between Kienchang and Nan Feng. We decided that I should wait here for some days and that Father Kerr should go on to Kienchang.
1983, Edward Fisher, “New Ground”, in Maybe a Second Spring: The Story of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban in China, New York: Crossroad, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:On New Year’s Eve in Kienchang, Father Moran was preparing his church for Mass on the next day, a day for which his parishioners had long prepared.
1994, Carl Molesworth, Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II, Brassey's, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184:Action continued the next day at Suichuan. Captain John Stewart led eight P-51 As to Kienchang to make the 76th's first attempt at dive-bombing with their Mustangs.