Kunshan
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English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 崑山／昆山 (Kūnshān).
Proper noun
Kunshan
- A county-level city in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
- 1976 December 19, “Armed conflict incidents rise”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVII, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
- An armed conflict between Hua Kuo-feng’s supporters and elements of the “gang of four” in Kunshan County, Kiangsu Province, ended with about 200 killed in mid-November, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei Dec. 14.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kunshan.
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Further reading
- Kunshan, K'un-shan, Kun-shan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Kunshan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1631, column 2