Meaning of Chia-hsing | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The province also shows a gradual and slow recovery to cultivation of the fertile lands of the province from the fearful desolation wrought by the rebels. In the prefecture of Chia-hsing, for instance, there were formerly more than a million souls; now there are hardly eighty thousand.”

“Moreover, while Hang-chou benefited greatly from immigration and Chia-hsing and Hu-chou either maintained or improved their academic success, the once dynamic area of Shao-hsiung and Ning-po suffered from considerable emigration and hence contributed significantly to the success of Hang-chou and especially other provinces.”

“Shih Hsün's first attempted suicide, for example, falls on the same day Wang Chung-chao goes to Chia-hsing to visit⟳ his ideal love⟳ (chapter 3); and Wang's return⟳ from Chia-hsing coincides with three events inside and outside of the revolutionary camp: the internal quarrel and disbandment of the "west-side" group as reported to him by Chang Ch'iu-liu, Chang Man-ch'ing's invitation to the debate⟳ in his "school" on where the next war will start⟳, and the Tsinan Incident of May 3, 1928, in which Japanese soldiers murdered Chinese civilians in Shangtung^([sic – meaning Shantung]) Province.”

“On 12 May, the PLA took Chia-hsing in Chekiang, on the Shanghai-Hangchow Railway, as well as P'ing-hu, a locally important town nearby.”

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