"Nan-ch'ang" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Mandarin 南昌 (Nánchāng), Wade–Giles romanization: Nan²-chʻang¹.",
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          "ref": "1898 October, “Missionary Conference held at Kuling, Central China, August 22nd to 25th, 1898”, in Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, volume 39, number 10, page 496",
          "text": "He spoke of the great demand for books. Had sold as many as fifty Bibles in one day. Has sold Bibles to nearly all the officials in the Nan-ch'ang prefecture and has several orders in hand for books of good binding.",
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          "ref": "[1958, Conrad Brandt, “A Defeat out of Victory and a Devil out of the Machine”, in Stalin's Failure in China, 1924-1927, number 31, Cambridge, Mass.: Russian Research Center, Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143",
          "text": "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.]",
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          "ref": "[1966, John E. Rue, “The General Front Committee”, in Mao Tse-tung in Opposition, 1927-1935, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 215",
          "text": "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.]",
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          "ref": "1980, Meng Han-ch'ing, “The Mo-Ho-Lo Doll”, in J. I. Crump, transl., Chinese Theater in the Days of Kublai Khan, Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, page 311",
          "text": "It seems my nephew is about to leave here to sell his wares in Nan-ch'ang, and he told me he would come bid me farewell. I wonder why he's not here?",
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          "ref": "1982, John Meskill, Academies in Ming China, University of Arizona Press, page 70",
          "text": "On his way there, he learned of the rebellion of the Prince of Ning at Nan-chʻang and organized forces against that threat, capturing the prince and the town in little more than a month.",
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          "ref": "1998, Chris Peers, Warlords of China 700 BC to AD 1662, Arms and Armour, →OCLC, page 141",
          "text": "Ch'en struck first at Nan-chʻang, a strategically important city on the shores of Lake P'o-yang, which emptied into the Yangtze from the south. The Han force was immense- it was later said to have numbered 600,000 men- and it must have seemed invincible.",
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          "ref": "2005, Nigel Cawthorne, Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots and Dictators, New York: Barnes & Noble, →OCLC, page 158",
          "text": "In 1927, Mao and his followers began a series of uprisings, the most notable being the Autumn Harvest Rising when his peasant army held the city of Nan-ch'ang for several days.",
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          "text": "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.]",
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