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English
Map including CH’IEN-CHIANG (TSIENKIANG) 潛江 (AMS, 1953) →OCLC
2001, Robert L. Jarman, China Political Reports 1911-1960: 1937-1941, volume 6, →ISBN, page 401:
In Central China the Japanese hold Tsienkiang in Central Hupeh, south of the Han River.
2015, Jack R. Lundbom, “Preaching, Evangelism, and Establishing a Chinese Church”, in On the Road to Siangyang: Covenant Mission in Mainland China 1890-1949 (Studies in Chinese Christianity), Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:
When this became too heavy a load for the seminary teacher, Oscar Anderson came with his family in the fall of 1932¹⁷⁵ to join in evangelism and relief work in Kingchow, Tsienkiang, and the outstations.[…] In the fall of 1934 Oscar Anderson and Pastor Tang made visits to Tsienkiang, a district between Kingchow and Hankow, and found there Christians who were still firm in their faith after visitations by the communists, and more people now who wanted to become Christian.
References
^ Kaske, Elisabeth (2008) The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →ISBN, page 52
Further reading
Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsienkiang or Ch’ien-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1952, column 3
