Kansu

kansū English thumb|MAP OFKANSU PROVINCENORTH WEST CHINA (1923) Etymology en cmn 甘肅 Gānsù. Pronunciation kǎnʹso͞oʹ gänʹso͞oʹen 1952 Kansu Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 908 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/908/ 1 Proper noun en Gansu. en 1914 Alexander Hosie (diplomat) Alexander Hosie On the Trail of the Opium Poppy https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/ I Boston w:Small, Maynard & Company 3633929 88 https://archive.org/details/b31360099_0001/page/88 Soon after leaving the village we crossed some rising ground, meeting on the summit a caravan of forty mules laden with drugs from Lan-chou, the capital of the province of Kansu. These drugs are sent down by cart to the department city of Ch'in Chou, eight stages from the capital, and there transferred to and thence brought down by pack animals. en https://archive.org/details/redstaroverchina0000snow/ 1937 w:Red Star Over China w:Edgar Snow Victor Gollancz Ltd 91 "Famine conditions continue to be reported in Honan, Anhui, Shensi, Kansu, Szechuan, and Kweichow. Quite evidently the country faces one of the most severe famines of many years, and thousands have already died. A recent survey by the Szechuan Famine Relief Commission discovered that 30,000,000 people are now in the famine belt of that province, where bark and 'Goddess-of-Mercy' earth are being consumed by tens of thousands. There are said to be over 400,000 famine refugees in Shensi, over a million in Kansu, some 7,000,000 in Honan, and 3,000,000 in Kweichou. The famine in Kweichow is admitted by the official Central News to be the most serious in 100 years, affecting sixty districts of the province." en 1964 William Samolin East Turkistan to the Twelfth Century https://archive.org/details/eastturkistantot0000unse/ The Hague Mouton & Co 185830464 5937814M 9 https://archive.org/details/eastturkistantot0000unse/page/9/ The general boundaries of East Turkistan are the Altai range on the northeast, Mongolia on the east, the Kansu corridor or the Su-lo-ho basin on the southeast, the K'un-lun system on the south, the Sarygol and Muztay-ata on the west, the main range of the T'ien-shan system on the north to the approximate longitude of Aqsu (80 deg. E), then generally northeast to the Altai system which the boundary joins in the vicinity of the Khrebët Nalinsk and Khrebët Sailjuginsk. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-10-16_24_41/ October 16, 1983 Another Defector Free China Weekly XXIV 41 0016-0318 1786626 Taipei 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1983-10-16_24_41/page/n2/ Refering to his personal experiences on the mainland, Chang said he had been sent to a remote area of Kansu Province in northeastern China to undergo labor reform (punishment) for 10 years. en 1993 Chinese Pen https://books.google.com/books?id=fmg5AAAAMAAJ 1811-6051 2694553 99 A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹ Derived terms en Kansu Corridor Kansu-Szechuan Time Zone Translations Gansu References Further reading pn Anagrams en aknsu Knaus Kuans Kunas ankus kunas unask Turkish Etymology Turkified version of the real name Kanşav (historically also transliterated as Qansuh, famously borne by the Circassian Burji Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri). From tr kbd Къанщауэ (Qanshawe), which is composed of къан (qan, meaning "foster child" or "prince") and щауэ (shawe, meaning "youth", "boy", or "son"). The name was altered to sound Turkish (resembling the Turkish words kan and su) in order to avoid Kemalist bans on non-Turkish names and to make it easier to pronounce. Proper noun tr male East Circassian, popular among Circassians in Turkey.