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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

In Kiangsi Province, 60% of the rice was destroyed; in Kiangsu, 30%.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, added the Chinese, swarms of locusts had moved into Honan, Shantung and Kiangsu provinces, stripping leaves from crops on thousands of acres of farmland.

From Time Magazine Archive

Provincial authorities in central China mobilized nearly half a million workers to build a 160-mile canal between Honan, Anhwei and Kiangsu provinces, linking several of central China's major rivers.

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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