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Qiawan, Nanfeng County

town in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ14587211 ↗
Source-derived summary

Qiawan (simplified Chinese: 洽湾镇; traditional Chinese: 洽湾鎮; pinyin: Qiàwān Zhèn) is a town-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Nanfeng County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China. As of 2017, it has 11 villages under its administration.

Administrative Divisions

Qiawan has jurisdiction over the following areas:

Qiawan Village, Shangdian Village, Huangjia Village, Likeng Village, Upstream Village, Huangfang Village, Xiping Village, Shijie Village, Changling Village, Taoyuan Village and Jiajin Village.

Editorial summary

“Qiawan, Nanfeng County” enters the record as town in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Qiawan, Nanfeng and County can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Qiawan, Nanfeng and County.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Qiawan, Nanfeng County” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Qiawan, Nanfeng and County provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14587211. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Qiawan, Nanfeng County”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Qiawan, Nanfeng County primary sources, Qiawan, Nanfeng County archive and Qiawan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Qiawan, Nanfeng County”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Qiawan, Nanfeng County” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.