Jiangnan (Qing province)
| Jiangnan 江南 | |
|---|---|
| Province of the Qing dynasty | |
| 1645–? | |
Nanking sive Kiangnan ("Nanjing or Jiangnan"), the 9th provincial map of the Chinese Empire in Martino Martini and Joan Blaeu's 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis | |
| Capital | Jiangning |
| History | |
• Established | 1645 |
• Disestablished | ? |
| Today part of | |
Jiangnan, formerly romanized as Kiangnan (Chinese: 江南省; Pinyin: Jiāngnán shěng; Wade–Giles: Chiang-nan Sheng; lit. 'Province South of the River'), was a historical province of the early Qing dynasty of China. Established in 1645 during the Qing conquest of Ming, it administered the area of the earlier Ming province of Nanzhili.
The province reached from north of the Huai River (at the time the course of the Yellow River) to south of the Yangtze River in East China. Its territory was later divided into the separate provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (1736–1795), although the exact timing is disputed.