Kiangsi

/ ˈkjæŋˈsiː /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Jiangxi

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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More important from today's viewpoint, in attacking the Red stronghold in Kiangsi, Chiang set a classic example of how to fight Communism: he developed a political-military offensive that cut off the Communists from supplies, disrupted their relations with the local populace, decimated their best armies and sent the remnants trudging into the far northwest on the famous Long March.

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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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