Kienning

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Kienning

  1. Dated form of Jianning.
    • 2017, Frances Slater, “Amy”, in The Wolfe Sisters of Foochow, China: Born to Evangelise[1], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 167:
      Members of the city guilds at Kienning accepted invitations to the mission house and listened to Christian addresses. In Foochow, itself, Miss E. S. Goldie, the longest serving CMS woman missionary, was invited by the head of a large opium club to attend a meeting held on the anniversary of the revolution.