Chi-an

See also: chian and Chian

English

Map including CHI-AN (LU-LING) (Walled) (𠮷安 (廬陵)) (AMS, 1953)

Etymology

From Mandarin 吉安 (Jí'ān) Wade–Giles romanization: Chi²-an¹.

Proper noun

Chi-an

1. Alternative form of Ji'an
   • 1959, Ping-ti Ho, Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 284:

     Some correspondents who toured the old Red shrines of southern Kiangsi in 1953 testify that Chi-an county alone has an annual rice surplus of over a million shih, because its population is small (150,000 in 1953) and available agricultural land is plentiful.

   • 1973, Ulrich Libbrecht, “The Shu-shu chiu-chang and Life in Sung China”, in Chinese Mathematics in the Thirteenth Century: The Shu-shu chui-chang of Ch’in Chui-shao‎^[2], MIT Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 435:

     In Chi-chou 吉州⁹³ the price per shih is 25 kuan 850 wên; [one shih is] 120 ko; the freight money to Chien-k’ang is 2 kuan 900 wên per shih.

     ⁹³ Now Chi-an hsien. 吉安縣.

   • 1977, Chiang Yee, China Revisited‎^[3], New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 144:

     We were in Chi-an County for tea and then, crossing the newly built modern bridge over the Kan River, we arrived at Tzu-p’ing Center, where we stayed in a hotel.

   • 1987, “Chi-an”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[4], 15th edition, volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 186, column 3:

     A county-level municipality (shih) and the administrative centre of Ching-kang-shan Prefecture (ti-ch'ü), Chi-an is situated on the west bank of the Kan Chiang (river), at the head of navigation for small steamboats from Nan-ch'ang.