Kansuh

English

Proper noun

Kansuh

1. Obsolete spelling of Gansu.
   • 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

     Even among the tributaries of the two great rivers of China, many rivers may be found of considerable length, and some scarcely inferior to the largest rivers of Europe. At the head of these are the Han-shwuy, which, rising in the mountains between Shense and Kansuh, empties itself into the Yang-tsze-keang at Han-yang-Foo, in Hoopih,—and the Ya-lung-keang, which rises in Kokonor, and after running for some time nearly parallel with the Yang-tsze-keang, empties itself into that river on the borders of Szechuen and Kansuh.

   • 1832 August, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta-tsing wan-neen yih-tung King-wei Yu-too”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[2], volume 1, number 4, Canton, page 119:

     Round Tsing-hae or Kokonor dwell some small tribes of Hoshoits, Choros, Khoits, Tourgouths, and Kalkas, divided into twenty-nine standards. These are governed by a Tseangkeun or General, who resides at Se-ning-foo in Kansuh.

   • 1878, Demetrius Charles Boulger, The Life of Yakoob Beg; Athalik Ghazi and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar‎^[3], London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC, page 7:

     Ush Turfan, New Turfan, is a small town on the road from Kashgar to Aksu, and is not to be confounded with the better known Turfan which is situated in the far east on the highway to Kansuh.

   • 1907, David P. Ekvall, “Kansuh, and How to Get There”, in Outposts or Tibetan Border Sketches‎^[4], New York: Alliance Press Co., →OCLC, pages 22–23:

     Kansuh is bounded on the East and South by the provinces of Shensi and Szechuen respectively, the trackless desert is its great Northern neighbor, the Southwest adjoins Outer Tibet, and the vast Northwest was formed into a separate province not long ago, and is called the New Dominion.
     . . .
     Kansuh is one of the highways to the "Great Closed Land," hence an important factor as a stepping-stone in the evangelization of its barbarous hordes.

References

• “Kansuh” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.

Anagrams

• Ashkun, Ku-shan, Kushan, ankhus, ankush