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Kiangsu

British  
/ ˈkjæŋˈsuː /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Jiangsu

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He was born in 1899, in a small village in the Kiangsu province of China, not far from where “The Good Earth” is set.

From The New Yorker Jul. 14, 2016

Wall posters in Peking announced that farmers were threatening to march through Kiangsu province to lay siege to Nanking and Shanghai.

From Time Magazine Archive

Observers, recalling the North Kiangsu offensive launched during Chiang's summer absence at Kuling, decided to wait and see.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last reports the Japanese had occupied the city, entered Kiangsu Province.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in the Kiangsu city where they now lived the people spoke in syllables which splintered from their lips and from the ends of their tongues.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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