Kienchang

English

Proper noun

Kienchang

  1. Dated form of Jianchang.
    • 1930 March, “"Perils from the Gentiles"”, in The Far East‎, volume XIII, number 3, Chinese Missionary Society of St. Columban, OCLC 60380780, page 6:
      We spent the night in a little Catholic village midway between Kienchang and Nan Feng. We decided that I should wait here for some days and that Father Kerr should go on to Kienchang.
    • 1994, Molesworth, Carl, Sharks Over China: The 23rd Fighter Group in World War II‎, Brassey's, LCCN 94-1558, OCLC 260161038, OL 7269734M, page 184:
      Action continued the next day at Suichuan. Captain John Stewart led eight P-51 As to Kienchang to make the 76th's first attempt at dive-bombing with their Mustangs.
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