Tsienkiang

• Tsienkiáng

From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 潛江／潜江 (Qiánjiāng).

Tsienkiang

1. (historical or obsolete) Alternative form of Qianjiang
   • 2001, Robert L. Jarman, China Political Reports 1911-1960: 1937-1941‎, volume 6, →ISBN, page 401:

     In Central China the Japanese hold Tsienkiang in Central Hupeh, south of the Han River.

   • 2015, Jack R. Lundbom, “Preaching, Evangelism, and Establishing a Chinese Church”, in On the Road to Siangyang: Covenant Mission in Mainland China 1890-1949 (Studies in Chinese Christianity)‎, Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 53:

     When this became too heavy a load for the seminary teacher, Oscar Anderson came with his family in the fall of 1932¹⁷⁵ to join in evangelism and relief work in Kingchow, Tsienkiang, and the outstations. […]
     In the fall of 1934 Oscar Anderson and Pastor Tang made visits to Tsienkiang, a district between Kingchow and Hankow, and found there Christians who were still firm in their faith after visitations by the communists, and more people now who wanted to become Christian.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Tsienkiang or Ch’ien-chiang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1952, column 3