Kiangsi

British  

/ ˈkjæŋˈsiː /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Jiangxi

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Example Sentences

The artist, a little investigation revealed, had copied a portrait of Chairman Mao as a youth of 27, striding through Kiangsi province in China's traditional gentleman's robe.

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After Chiang's Kuomintang and the Communists came to bloody parting of the ways, Li and his wife joined the Long March in which Mao led 90,000 Communists 6,000 miles from Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan, escaping the pursuing Kuomintang.

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In Kiangsi province, 480,000 workers were ordered out of their industrial plants and into the fields.

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The Communists withdrew southward to Kiangsi and Hunan Provinces, boldly resumed their offensive while the Japanese were striking in Manchuria in 1931.

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Part of Chiang's temporary placation of Japan had consisted of "chasing" the Chinese Red Army from Kiangsi south of Shanghai back through the immensity of hither China on a vast circuitous sweep over mountain ranges, deserts and rivers to Shensi, in the great bend of the Yellow River�the birthplace of China's 4,000-year-old civilization.

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