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Kiang·su

(kyäng′so͞o′)
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Kiangsu

(ˈkjæŋˈsuː)
n
(Placename) a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Jiangsu
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Jiang•su

(ˈdʒyɑŋˈsü)

also Kiangsu



n.
a maritime province in E China. 70,210,000; 39,460 sq. mi. (102,200 sq. km). Cap.: Nanjing.
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Application of some geochemical indicators in determining of sedimentary environment of the Funing Group (Paleogene), Jin-Hu Depression, Kiangsu Province.
Her foreign affairs career began in 1946 with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in China's Kiangsu province.
Population control of the yellow-spined bamboo locust, Ceracris kiangsu, using urine-borne chemical baits in bamboo forest.
Due to governmental neglect of irrigation works it burst its banks and caused widespread devastation in Anhwei and Kiangsu. It had previously flowed to the sea through the lower course of the Huai river, but after 1855, it flowed from Kaifeng to the Shantung peninsula, more than 400 km north of its previous channel.
This fish in every coastal home being bred, Often has to inland Kiangsu spread." (Chen, op.cit.: 302).
As Watchman Nee wrote on December 4, 1932, "For three years now, more than ten places in Tsao Ning (Zaoning), of Kiangsu (Jiangsu), belonging to the [American] Presbyterians, more than ten places in T'ai Shuen (Taishun), of Chekiang (Zhejiang), belonging to the [China] Inland Mission, a number of places in Fukien (Fujian) of other sects, agreeing in doctrine, have already been amalgamated, have done away with their original name, changed the rules of pastors and leaders, and attached themselves to the Little Flock." (22) Given his emphasis on the independence of local churches, many Chinese Christians found it irresistible to affiliate with the Little Flock.
But where I work, with the Wu dialects of China's Kiangsu and Chekiang provinces, it is different.
David Faure, "The Rural Economy of Kiangsu Province, 1870-1911," Journal of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, vol.9, no.2 (1978): 417.

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