- a variation of Jiangsu.
Kiangsu
Britishnoun
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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
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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
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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
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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.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
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