Kienchang

English

Proper noun

Kienchang

1. Dated form of Jianchang.
   • 1930 March, “"Perils from the Gentiles"”, in The Far East‎^[1], volume XIII, number 3, Chinese Missionary Society of St. Columban, →OCLC, page 6:

     We spent the night in a little Catholic village midway between Kienchang and Nan Feng. We decided that I should wait here for some days and that Father Kerr should go on to Kienchang.

   • 1983, Edward Fisher, “New Ground”, in Maybe a Second Spring: The Story of the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban in China‎^[2], New York: Crossroad, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 105:

     On New Year’s Eve in Kienchang, Father Moran was preparing his church for Mass on the next day, a day for which his parishioners had long prepared.

   • 1994, Carl Molesworth, Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II‎^[3], Brassey's, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 184:

     Action continued the next day at Suichuan. Captain John Stewart led eight P-51 As to Kienchang to make the 76th's first attempt at dive-bombing with their Mustangs.