Sutsien

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

Sutsien

1. Alternative form of Suqian
   • 1949, Frank A. Brown, The Last Hundred Days‎, 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, 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.

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