Chinkiangとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

Chinkiang

1. Alternative form of Zhenjiang
   • 1905, B. L. Putnam Weale, The Re-shaping of The Far East‎^[1], volume II, The Macmillan Company, page 35 to 36:

     Not content with this, Pottinger ordered the commanders to proceed up the Yangtsze and capture Nanking—the ancient capital of the empire. As a first step, Chinkiang, seventy miles lower down the river than Nanking, was occupied after a very sharp struggle.

   • 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career‎^[2], Yale History Press, OCLC 5271650, page 188:

     The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital.

   • 1957, C. E. Lucas Phillips, Escape of the Amethyst‎^[3], New York: Coward-McCann, LCCN 58-005900, OCLC 1295943, page 10:

     As it nears the sea at Chinkiang, the point at which it makes its entrance into our story, it broadens out into a mile-wide flood, following a serpentine course through flat, marshy country, its waters stained the colour of milk chocolate by its heavy load of alluvial silt and impeded by innumerable islands and sandbanks that vex the way of the navigator. This is the Yangtse—the Yangtse of the low-lying province of Kiangsu, from the ancient walled city of Chinkiang to the open sea—upon whose waters and along whose banks we shall live and move in this story.

   • December 2010, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 43: