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Kiangsi

British  
/ ˈkjæŋˈsiː /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Jiangxi

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There are mythic overtones to that phrase: Mao's original Long March of 1934-35, from Kiangsi to remote Shensi province, was the crucible that forged the Communist Party in China.

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Fifty Japanese bombers pounded airfields in Fukien, Kiangsi, and Hunan Provinces in what the Central News Agency called a "deliberate effort to wipe out Allied air bases in east and south China."

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But in the course of the campaign, he turned on the Communists and eventually drove them into the remote hills of Kiangsi.

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His army scattered the Chinese Communists into the hills of Kiangsi and Fukien Provinces.

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Westward, up the Yangtse valley, the provinces of Anhwei, Kiangsi, Hunan and Hupeh have very extensive canalized tracts, probably exceeding 28,000 square miles in area, and Figs.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

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