kansu

name

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of Gansu.

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “Refering^([sic]) 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.”

   “A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹”