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Sutsien

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English

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Etymology

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From the Postal Romanization[1] of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 宿遷宿迁 (Sùqiān).

Proper noun

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Sutsien

  1. Alternative form of Suqian
    • 1949, Frank A. Brown, The Last Hundred Days[2], Shanghai: Board of Missions, Presbyterian Church in the United States, →OCLC, page 11:
      In the Sutsien country field three Christian leaders and three children have been killed by shells and bombs.
    • 1970, Arthur Waley, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet[3], Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:
      On the boat he noticed that Wang sniffed at things to eat and drink, but never swallowed them, and that if he sniffed at anything hot, it at once became icy- cold. When they got to Sutsien, the ghost said, ‘They are giving a play in that village over there. Let’s go and look on’. When they had watched several episodes, the ghost suddenly disappeared.
    • 1971, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, published 2010, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 46:
      At Sutsien six bandits had been executed a few days before.

References

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  1. ^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese).[1], Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 82:The romanisation adopted is [] that used by the Chinese Post Office. [] Sutsien 宿遷縣 Kiangsu 江蘇 33.59N 118.32E

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