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Definition of Kansu
1. Noun. A province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia.
Generic synonyms: Province, State
Group relationships: Silk Road, Cathay, China, Communist China, Mainland China, People's Republic Of China, Prc, Red China
Terms within: Lanchou, Lanchow, Lanzhou
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kansu
Literary usage of Kansu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"Yet, in the vast panorama, many a detail may seem small that on the spot bulks *
This paper was written in Kansu last summer (Editor). ..."
2. Origin of the Western Nations & Languages: Showing the Construction and Aim by Charles Lassalle (1883)
"As Cantabria says in Spanish that mirth is singing, "Ma Canta"; Cantabria, Kansu
and Ngan-si-Fun must show why we should recognise in ..."
3. Tibet, the Mysterious by Thomas Hungerford Holdich (1906)
"... Christianity in Coria — The Mongolian and Chinese Borderland Frontier Farms —
Mongolian Customs — Trade with China — Lamaism in Western Kansu — The Koko ..."
4. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society (1892)
"When the Sioux first obtained our ordinary playing cards they gave to them, as
well as to the game, the name kansu, because they were used by the whites and ..."
5. In the Footsteps of Marco Polo: Being the Account of a Journey Overland from by Clarence Dalrymple Bruce (1907)
"THE inhabitants of Western Kansu vary so little from the ordinary Chinese of the
north, that any detailed description of them is unnecessary. ..."
6. China by Harold Edward Gorst (1899)
"... of Shensi—The Province of Kansu—Kwangtung and Hong Kong Island—The Province
of Fukien—The Province of Chekiang—Marco Polo's Description of Hangchow—The ..."
7. China: Travels and Investigations in the "Middle Kingdom"-- a Study of Its by James Harrison Wilson (1901)
"... presumptive to the Throne—Tung Fuh-siang and the Kansu Braves—Overthrow of
the Liberals—Threatened death of the Emperor—Troubles between Empress Dowager ..."
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