- a variation of Jiangxi.
Kiangsi
Britishnoun
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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."
From Time Magazine Archive
When the Communists made the 6,000-mile "Long March" from southern Kiangsi to Yenan in 1934-35, Liu Shao-chi remained in Kuomintang territory as a Red agent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Chen was left behind for good cause: in the early 1930s, he supported an anti-Mao faction in Kiangsi province, and although Chen shrewdly changed horses later, Mao took a long time to forgive him.
From Time Magazine Archive
But within four years his "Chinese Soviet Republic," headquartered in a Buddhist temple on rugged Chingkan Mountain in Kiangsi province, was the most powerful Communist force in China.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another legend relates that an old woman living in Kiangsi had her arm broken through being struck by lightning, when a voice from above was heard saying: “I have made a mistake.”
From Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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