- a variation of Jiangsu.
Kiangsu
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Kiangsu, Maoist cultural cadres are vociferously denouncing "rock-'n'-roll crazy dances and vulgar and revolting actions in some so-called revolutionary dances."
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
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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