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Kiangsu

/ ˈkjæŋˈsuː /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Jiangsu

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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.

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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.

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This is the common pronunciation over the northeastern provinces of Chihli, Shantung, Nganhwui, and Kiangsu, and somewhat in the contiguous provinces also, though everywhere in these regions with some slight local variations.

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In pursuance of this object, he visited the city of Tuchan fu, which lies a few miles northwest of Shanghai, and is the capital of the province of Kiangsu.

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The Chinese census gives an average of over nine hundred souls to a square mile in the province of Kiangsu, and every opportunity which has been offered for examining it, has added new evidence to the truth of this statement, though closer investigation and further travel is necessary before we can give implicit reliance to the assertions made on this subject.

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