Crossword clues for chiang
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wikipedia
Chiang may mean:
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a Chinese surname (蔣), alternatively spelt Jiang
- Chiang Kai-shek, former leader of the Republic of China
- Chi'ang, variant spelling of the ancient Qiang (historical people) (羌)
- Chi'ang, variant spelling of the modern Qiang people (羌族) in Wenchuan
- Chiang, variant spelling of jiang soy sauce
- Chiang (place name), a term for "town" in Northern Thailand and surrounding areas
Chiang is a word of uncertain origin, perhaps a Sino-Thai word for "town". It is part of the names of certain ancient cities and other places located in an area stretching across Northern Thailand, Northern Laos, NE Burma and Southern China. The most important are:
- Chiang Mai
- Chiang Rai
- Chiang Khong
- Chiang Saen
- Chiang Rung or Chiang Hung, Jinghong in China
- Chiang Tung, Kengtung in Shan State, Burma
- Chiang Thong, Luang Prabang in Laos
- Chiang Kham District
- Chiang Khan District
- Chiang Dao District
- Chiang Khaeng a Lue principality
Usage examples of "chiang".
Ted Chiang, Alan Moore, Louise Erdrich, Steven Millhauser, Lisa Goldstein .
Lattimore thought Stalin was a peach, but he equivocated about our Nationalist Chinese ally Chiang Kai-shek.
When Chiang was fighting the Japanese and thus preventing them from threatening Russia, Lattimore adored Chiang.
Communists besieged the Chinese Nationalist government, suddenly Lattimore complained that Chiang Kai-shek was nothing to write home about.
Lattimore recommended that the United States begin placing demands on Chiang while simultaneously opening a dialogue with the Communist insurgents.
Much as liberals had attacked Chiang Kai-shek and would one day attack the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan for not being Thomas Jefferson clones, Kennedy decided the South Vietnamese premiere, Ngo Dinh Diem, had his shortcomings.
We laugh now to hear the Tories abusing Mussolini when they were nattering him five years ago, but who would have foretold in 1927 that the Left would one day take Chiang Kai-shek to its bosom?
Poet Laureate Lattimore was hauled out of irrelevance by President Roosevelt - on the recommendation of Soviet agent Currie - and sent to advise Chiang Kai-shek from 1941 to 1942.
But Lattimore recommended that the United States begin placing demands on Chiang while simultaneously opening a dialogue with the Communist insurgents.
The Trial of Winston Churchill, or The Trial of Chiang Kai-shek, or even The Trial of Ramsay MacDonald.
Aircraft with enough fuel remaining in their tanks bingoed to Chiang Mai or all the way to Don Muong.
Tama Hideoshi had taken over all that remained of Fighter Command, but Vassily was chained to Antarctica, Frederick Amesbury was working himself into his own grave in Plotting, trying desperately to keep tabs on the outer system through his Achuultani-crippled arrays, and Chiang Chien-su couldn't possibly be spared from his heartbreaking responsibility for Civil Defense.
Chiang Chien-su had a screen all to himself as he waited tensely in his civil defense HQ, and Hatcher could see the control room of PDC Huan Ti behind Tsien.
I sat there on the top step and listened to Terry and Connie and Flip Corkin and, so help me God, Agnes Moorehead as the Dragon Lady, all of them in a new adventure that took place in a Red China that had not existed in the days of Milton Caniffs 1937 version of the Orient, with river pirates and Chiang Kai-shek and warlords and the naive Imperialism of American gunboat diplomacy.
The Devils from the Eastern Sea came with their guns and their tanks and raped our earth, and then, after warlord Mao Tse-tung and warlord Chiang Kai-shek beat them off, they fought among themselves and again the land was laid waste.