Nanch'ang

See also: Nanchang, Nan-ch'ang, nánchāng, and Nánchāng

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻang¹.

Proper noun

Nanch'ang

1. Alternative form of Nanchang
   • 1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924-1927‎^[2], number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

     The small group around Ch’en Tu-hsiu that had remained at headquarters hastily sent an emissary — Chang Kuo-t’ao — to Nanch’ang. Though Chang set out immediately, he did not reach Nanch’ang until July 31, the day before the rising.

   • 1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927-1935‎^[3], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215:

     The First Army Corps attacked Nanch'ang on August 1, but failed to capture it. […] In the meantime, P'eng's Third Army Corps had captured Ch'angsha on July 29 and proclaimed a soviet government of three provinces (Kiangsi, Hunan, and Hupeh), with Li Li-san as its chairman in absentia.

   • 1972 [1968], Jacques Guillermaz, “The change in leadership and the failure of the Nanch'ang and Autumn Harvest Uprisings, and of the Canton Commune”, in Anne Destenay, transl., A History of the Chinese Communist Party, 1921-1949 [Historie du parti communiste chinois 1921-1949]‎^[4], 1st American edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 151:

     The Communist Party had no troops of its own, but it is known that the Northern Expedition forces included several communist officers, some of whom held important commands. Such was the case in the Second Front Army (ex Fourth Army), commanded by General Chang Fa-k'uei and recently transferred from Hupei to the Nanch'ang-Kiukiang area of Kiangsi, with its headquarters to Kiukiang (see Map 5, p. 152). A few units of three armies belonging to the Second Front Army were in Nanch'ang itself or in the neighbourhood of the town: […]

   • 1982, Edward L. Dreyer, “The Rise of the Ming Empire, 1352-1368”, in Early Ming China: A Political History, 1355-1435‎^[5], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     In early 1358 Ch’en Yu-liang captured Anch’ing, and soon afterwards Nanch’ang, the key to central Kiangsi, fell without serious resistance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Nanch'ang.