Citations:Chiu-chiang

English citations of Chiu-chiang

Map including 九江 CHIU-CHIANG (KIUKIANG) (walled) (AMS, 1954) →OCLC

• 1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Chʻing China and Tokugawa Japan‎^[1], Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:

  In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing. During the late eighteenth century there were 221 chia (official divisions within the pao-chia system, which reflected population) inside the city and approximately 1,900 chia in the remainder of the hsien, indicating that 10 percent of the hsien population resided in Chiu-chiang city.

• 1975, Federic Wakeman, Jr., The Fall of Imperial China‎^[2], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 152:

  On February 18, 1853, Chiu-chiang fell to the rebels, who went on to take Anking. Less than a month later, on March 19, the Taiping forces captured the beautiful city of Nanking, which was renamed T'ien-ching (Heavenly Capital) to commemorate the occasion.

• 2003, C.J. Shane, editor, China (The History of Nations)‎^[3], Greenhaven Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 67:

  This army recaptured Wu-chʻang, on the right bank of the Yangtze, in 1854, reached Chen-chiang four years later, advanced to Chiu-chiang and threatened Nanking.