Lianjiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: lyěnʹjyängʹ
Forms: form: Lienkong
form: Lienchiang
form: Lien-chiang
form: Lienkiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 連江／连江 (Liánjiāng).
Senses: examples: text: In Lianjiang, for example, teams of women apparently used collective funds to organize "large-scale play companies" and buy "ancient-style opera costumes. They have even taken young people to study acting. Some teams, in order to maintain play companies, have even asked counter-revolutionaries to direct them. Others have hired play companies from distant places and have continually put on performances."
ref: 1982, William G. Rosenberg, Marilyn B. Young, Transforming Russia and China, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 293:
text: When a fishing boat of Huangqi township of Fujian's Lianjiang county, which was engaged in nongovernmental trade, was having a transaction with a Matzu trader near the waters of Matzu island on the afternoon of 23 April, the troops garrisoned in Matzu opened fire at them, killing one and injuring two.
ref: 1995 May 2 [1995 April 28], Zhou Xiang (0719 5046), “Matzu Troops Fire at Fishermen, Killing One”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 95-084, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88, column 2:
text: In a small store in Tingjiang, across the Min River in Lianjiang County, questions about smuggling people into America prompted a lively discussion.
ref: 2003 September 7, David W. Chen, “For Many Chinese, America's Allure Is Fading”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World:
text: A few years ago, this community leader’s wife had “divorced” him, “married” a U.S. citizen, and immigrated to the United States with their two children. He was the only member of his family still in Lianjiang.
ref: 2008, Sheldon X. Zhang, Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 210:
text: Mei’s family lived in Lianjiang County, directly across from the island of Taiwan. Beginning in the late 1980s, the people of her county began a massive emigration to western nations like the United Kingdom and the U.S.
As a young girl, Mei actually had dreams of someday joining the People’s Liberation Army in China. After beginning school, though, she was impressed with her instructors there and decided to aim her sights instead on becoming a teacher.
She attended Lianjiang Shangde High School, which she said is one of the best schools in the area to prepare students for college.
“It was very competitive,” she added.
ref: 2020 May 13, Gary Sheftick, “MacArthur awardee proud of Asian-Pacific heritage”, in Army News Service:
glosses: A county of Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China.
glosses: A town in Dingyuan, Chuzhou, Anhui, China.
examples: text: With the promulgation of the Statue^([sic – meaning Statute]) for the Security and Guidance of Quemoy, Matsu, and the Pratas and Spratly Areas on August 7, 1992, the villagers in Jinmen and Lianjiang (Lienchiang, i.e. Matsu) counties held their first elections in November 1993 respectively to have their county magistrates locally elected.
ref: 1996, T. K. Tong, “Historical Relations”, in Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai, editors, 中國大陸與臺灣 [Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents], Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 46:
english: Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents
translation: Chinese Mainland and Taiwan: A Study of Historical, Cultural, Economic and Political Relations with Documents
text: With programs such as Taiwan’s Advancements and Every Road Leads to Freedom, the Matsu Broadcasting Station (馬祖廣播電台) commenced its daily broadcasts toward the coast of China’s Fujian Province on June 15, 1959.
At the ribbon-cutting ceremony, then-political warfare bureau chief Chiang Chien-jen (蔣堅忍) announced the station’s objectives: to provide entertainment to the soldiers stationed on the tiny island off the coast of China and to “broadcast the voice of justice and freedom to sway the hearts of our compatriots on the mainland.”
According to the Chronicle of Lianjiang County (連江縣誌), that year the station broadcast 1,872 hours of propaganda, leading to 53 communist defections.
Although Taiwan had been broadcasting propaganda to China since 1949, the station’s establishment was part of a nationwide effort in 1959 to ramp up its psychological warfare operations. In Matsu, this included upgrading the existing loudspeakers and setting up a facility to send balloons containing propaganda messages.
ref: 2019 June 9, Han Cheung, “Taiwan in Time: The airwaves of ‘freedom’”, in Taipei Times:
text: Wang said the ancestral homes of Matsu's people are found in the Lienchiang area (written “Lianjiang” in China), which is now divided between the territories of the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the People’s Republic of China. “Their bloodline, language, religion, customs, and lifestyles are all extremely similar,” he said.
ref: 2024 May 13, Jono Thomson, “Magistrate of Taiwan's Matsu seeks bridge, infrastructure connections with China”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 13 May 2024, Cross-strait:
glosses: Alternative form of Lienchiang: a county of Fujian, Taiwan; administrative name for the Matsu Islands.