Meaning of Chinkiang | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Not content with this, Pottinger ordered the commanders to proceed up the Yangtsze and capture Nanking—the ancient capital of the empire. As a first step, Chinkiang, seventy miles lower down the river than Nanking, was occupied after a very sharp struggle.”

“Starting from Hangchow the canal goes by Kashing to Soochow, a distance of 100 miles, and thence by Wusih and Changchow through long straight stretches to Chinkiang, another 100 miles. It is here unlike our preconceived ideas of a canal—a current-less water-way barely wide enough to allow two streams of boats to pass each other—and has often a width of over a hundred feet between its sides, faced in many parts of its course with cut stone bunding.”

“In spite of the 1913 rebellion and the loss of opium revenue, Chinkiang has a hopeful future, especially when the new port of P’u-k’ou opposite Nanking springs into organised existence.”

“The resourcefulness of the Taipings was not too greatly occupied with the establishment of the Celestial Capital to prevent reaching out for the vital strategic centers of Chinkiang and Yangchow, the former a commanding site at the intersection of the Grand Canal with the Yangtse River, the latter on the canal about twenty-five or thirty miles away, both together controlling that vital artery through which flowed the supplies of tribute grain to the capital.”

“As it nears the sea at Chinkiang, the point at which it makes its entrance into our story, it broadens out into a mile-wide flood, following a serpentine course through flat, marshy country, its waters stained the colour of milk chocolate by its heavy load of alluvial silt and impeded by innumerable islands and sandbanks that vex the way of the navigator. This is the Yangtse—the Yangtse of the low-lying province of Kiangsu, from the ancient walled city of Chinkiang to the open sea—upon whose waters and along whose banks we shall live and move in this story.”

“The Bells and Taylors went by launch down the canal to Chinkiang and thence by slow, foreign-owned river steamer some 350 miles up the Yangtze to Kiukiang.”

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