Word: kiangsu
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...those of the Nationalist Government. Japanese junks landed huge cargoes of silk, rayon, woolen goods, cosmetics and, most of all, sugar at Hopei fishing villages. Trucks and canal boats, most of them flying Japanese flags, smuggled the goods into Peiping and Tientsin, have recently extended the trade to Kiangsu, Anhwei, Honan, Shensi and even Kansu province...
...wife as he could have picked: silent, a hard and willing worker, a sturdy producer of children. Fortune smiled on Wang Lung, he bought more land. Then came a year of famine. With himself and his family nearly dead of starvation, Wang Lung decided to go south. In Kiangsu they lived like beggars, but they lived...
Revolution came to Kiangsu and gave Wang Lung a lucky break. In the uproar he stumbled on a good windfall of loot, and back they all went to Anhwei. The farm was in a dreadful state, but money mended matters; soon Wang Lung was richest man in the village. Famines came again but he outrode them. Olan served him well and truly, lived to see herself supplanted by Lotus, a pretty but sterile harlot-mistress. Wang Lung's sons grew up to disappoint him. He was proud of their superior education but grieved that they cared nothing...
...While in Kiangsu Province, Nanking's railway minister Sun Fo cast about to remedy "wholesale inefficiency" (see p. 24), capable General Hsi Yu-San, next door in Honan Province, kept a tight grip on the 40 locomotives and 800 cars which he seized last December...
...Civil examinations in Nanking, for posts in the province of Kiangsu, were temporarily disrupted by cries of "cheat!" "favoritism...