Citations:hsien

English citations of hsien

• [1871, Frederick Porter Smith, Contributions Towards the Materia Medica & Natural History‎^[1], →OCLC, page 176‎^[2]:

  The fruit is largely eaten, the best coming from Yü-chau hien in Honan, and from Han-yang fu and T'ung-shan hien in Hupeh.]

• 1880, Inspector General of Customs, Reports on Trade at the Treaty Ports for the Year 1879‎^[3], Shanghai, →OCLC, page 181:

  The removal of the Prefect from Teukcham to Banka was what was required to consolidate the city, and when that occurred in May last, progress set in with vigour. With the Prefect's departure from Teukcham occurred a change in the name and constitution of that place. It ceased to be called Teukcham, receiving in place of this the name of Hsinchu, and being converted from a t'ing into a hsien. It is now known as Hsinchu-hsien (新竹縣).

• 1944, Martin R. Norins, quoting Sheng Shih-ts’ai yü Hsin Hsin-chiang, “The Racial Question of Sinkiang”, in Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West‎^[4], John Day Company, →OCLC, page 143:

  The Kucha group includes the three hsien of Yen-ch’i, Kucha, and Aqsu. The people of these places are peaceful, and besides engaging in agriculture, have handicraft trades. The Kashgar group includes all the counties of K’o-shih Ch’ü.

• 1945 December, Resumption of United States Trade with the Far East: Reopening of Commercial Channels and Relaxation of Trade Controls‎^[5], Far Eastern Unit, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, →OCLC, page 3:

  Formosa: Prewar conditions in Formosa were described in an article in FOREIGN COMMERCE WEEKLY of January 1, 1944. According to an announcement of the official Chinese News Service, there are to be 8 chief administrative subdivisions of Formosa. Although it is not known that their boundary lines will exactly coincide with those of the provinces under Japanese rule, this is probable. Names of the new hsien (districts), with corresponding Japanese province names in parentheses, are as follows: Taipei (Taihoku); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hwalienkan (Karenko); and Taitung (Taito). The Pescadores Islands form the eighth hsien. Nine cities will continue to be recognized as municipalities: Taipei (Taihoku); Taichung (Taichu); Tainan (Tainan); Chilung (Kiirun or Keelung); Kaohsiung (Takao); Hsinchu (Shinchiku); Chiayi (Kagi); Changhua (Shoka); and Pintung (Heito).

• 1962, Chalmers A. Johnson, “Peasant Nationalism in China”, in Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China 1937-1945‎^[6], Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 4:

  As one example of the wartime orientation of this propaganda, here is part of a leaflet prepared by the CCP-dominated Shansi Sacrifice League and captured by the Japanese Army in Chiehhsiu hsien, Shansi, in September 1938.

• 1962, Tʻung-tsu Chʻü, Local Government in China under the Ch'ing‎^[7], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 299:

  Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).

• 1963, Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[8], numbers 2889-2909, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:

  (2) Huaipin hsien is restored; its present administrative area is the administrative area of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Hsi hsien and the two administrative areas of Ch'issu and Changchuang ch'u of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Kushih hsien.

• 1966 June, Tingsen S. Wei, “The Origin of Russia According to Chinese Records”, in Chinese Culture: A Quarterly Review‎^[9], volume VII, number 2, Taipei: Chinese Culture University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:

  Among the West Jung states, there was one nomadic state called Wu-shih 烏氏（史記，匈奴列傳）, of which the original state seat was the modern 烏氏城 Wu-shih Cheng (citadel) in the norht of Chingchuan Hsien in Kansu 甘肅涇川縣北.

• 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎^[10], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:

  Small arrowheads, small elongated scrapers, and microblades have been found in the Heiliut’uho Valley in Heng-shan Hsien, in what may be a nonceramic context.

• 1968, Donald W. Klein, “P’ENG TEH-HUAI”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[11], volume 17, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 552, column 2:

  P’ENG TEH-HUAI (c. 1900– ), Chinese revolutionist and Communist military leader, was born of a peasant family in the central Chinese province of Hunan and in the hsien (county) that was the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung.

• 1968, “Hu Shih”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China‎^[12], volume II, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:

  A native of Chihsi hsien, Anhwei, Hu Shih was born in Shanghai.

• 1969, T’ung-tsu C’hü, “Chou and Hsien Government”, in Local Government in China Under the Ch’ing‎^[13], Stanford: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

  In China in the Ch’ing dynasty local government was organized on the same principle at all levels. All administrative units, from the province down to the chou (department) and the hsien (district), which are the focus of our study, were designed and created by the central government which financed their budgets, appointed their officials, and directed and supervised their activities.

• 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Kao Feng”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965‎^[14], volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:

  Born in Tsinghai, Kao has spent his entire career in his native northwest as a Party and government official. He was first reported in 1946 as a delegate from Yen-ch’ih hsien to the Third Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia (Shen-Kan-Ning) Border Region, the first session of which was held in April 1946. He presumably remained a delegate until the dissolution of the Border Region in early 1949. Yen-ch’ih hsien is located in present-day Ninghsia, just south of the Great Wall where Ninghsia merges with Inner Mongolia and Shensi.

• 1975, Michael Y. M. Kau, editor, The Lin Piao Affair: Power Politics and Military Coup‎^[15], White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 6:

  On the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in the year 1907, our respected and beloved Vice Chairman Lin Piao was born to a poverty-stricken family of Lin-chia-ta-wan at the foot of Pai-yang Hill in the Hui-lung mountainous area, Huang-kang hsien, Hupei Province.

• 1981, Annual Review of Government Administration, Republic of China‎^[16], →OCLC, page 52, column 1:

  B. Relocation and Construction of the Tainan Prison and the Tainan Detention House:
  The new prison and detention house is located at Taichutso, Kueijen Hsiang, Tainan Hsien, and has a total space of more than 30 hectares.

• 1981, Yu Lu, You Lu, Chun-shu Chang, Joan Smythe, South China in the Twelfth Century: A Translation of Lu Yu's Travel Diaries, July 3 - December 6, 1170‎^[17], Chinese University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 144:

  We moored at Kuan-tzu Mouth,⁶⁷ which is between the two cities of Sung-tzu and Chih-chiang (modern Chih-chiang Hsien, Hupeh). Sung-tzu was a hsien under the Chin, and from there one enters the Shu River.⁶⁸ Chih-chiang was a hsien under the Tʻang, and anciently was the State of Lo.⁶⁹

• 1987, “Chin-shih”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[18], 15th edition, volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 220, column 3:

  Chin-shih is a market town in Li County (hsien) in Ch'ang-te Prefecture (ti-ch'ü).

• 1988 February 15, “SALESIANS CELEBRATE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. JOHN BOSCO´S DEATH”, in Union of Catholic Asian News (China)‎^[19], archived from the original on 11 March 2023‎^[20]:

  Nine Salesian priests and eight brothers manage the Salesian Professional School in Taiwan, Boys Town for orphans in Chaochou in Pingtung Hsien, the parish in Taipei, and Salesiana Publishers.

• 1995, Roger Mark Selya, “Taipei as a center of culture”, in Taipei‎^[21], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 243:

  Tennis and golf are especially popular. Advertisements for golf courses are carried by buses. But the golf links are not accessible, being located in Shihmen dam area, south of Taipei City, in Hsinfeng in Hsinchu hsien, and in Lungtan in Taoyuan hsien.

• 2000, Sheau-yueh J. (趙賀筱岳) Chao, “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames]‎^[22], Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83‎^[23]:

  The State of Huang was located in Huang-ch'uan hsien 潢川縣, Ho-nan 河南 province, which was later defeated by the State of Ch'u (Ch'u kuo 楚國), setting the stage for the adoption of Huang as a surname by Lu Chung's descendants in commemoration.

• 2007 January 2, “A Brief Introduction To The Prosecutorial System Of The Republic Of China”, in Taiwan Shihlin District Prosecutors Office (臺灣士林地方檢察署)‎^[24], archived from the original on 28 June 2022‎^[25]:

  The prosecutors’ office for the Nantou District Court exercises the jurisdiction within the of district Nantou Hsien.

• 2008 October, “Introduction”, in Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Executive Yuan, Republic of China, editor, Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of China 2007‎^[26], Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2021, page i:

  Taiwan-Fukien Area referred to Taiwan District's Taiwan Province, Taipei Municipality, Kaohsiung Municipality and Fukien Province's Kinmen Hsien and Lienchiang Hsien.

• 2010 September 27, “The Newly-Elected Public Office Holders Touted by TKU Office of”, in 淡江時報 [Tamkang Times]‎^[27], →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 March 2023‎^[28]:

  Surprisingly, we find the mayor-elect of Penghu hsien, Mr. Lai Fong-wei to be the husband of Ms. Kuo Mei-cheng, who has been the alumnae of TKU majoring in English.

• 2014 November 9, Steve Brachmann, “The Evolution of Wind Shield Wipers – A Patent History”, in IP Watchdog‎^[29], archived from the original on 05 December 2014‎^[30]:

  Assigned to the Faidek Corporation of Changhua Hsien, Taiwan, the patent protects a windshield wiper assembly that achieves the desired vibration reductions through the application of a shock-absorbing function created by elastic members within the assembly.

• 2015, Yu-Hsuan Peng et al., “Green tea inhibited the elimination of nephro-cardiovascular toxins and deteriorated the renal function in rats with renal failure”, in Scientific Reports‎^[31], volume 5, →ISSN, →OCLC:

  EGC (purity 92.7%) was obtained from ChromaDex, Inc. (Irvine, CA, U.S.A.). and ethyl acetate were LC grade and obtained from ECHO Chemical Co. (Miaoli Hsien, Taiwan).

• 2016 August 29, Frank R., “High Performance Motorcycle Lubricants Provider – MIN JUNG HONG”, in B2B Tool Online‎^[32], archived from the original on 20 September 2020‎^[33]:

  To respond to clients’ requirements, we built a plant in Douliu industrial area of Yunlin Hsien in 1998 and cooperated with world-famous additive supplier, which supplies formulation of materials and technology for us to manufacture lubricant for automobiles and industry.

• 2018, Yu-Yi Chan et al., “The Constituents of the Stems of Cissus assamica and Their Bioactivities”, in Molecules‎^[34], volume 23, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5 of 10:

  The fresh stems of C. assamica L. were collected from Taitung Hsien, Taiwan, in October 2009 and verified by Prof. Chang-Sheng Kuoh (Department of Biology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan).

• (Can we date this quote?), “Chapter XI. System of Local Government, Constitution of the Republic of China”, in Law & Regulations Database of the Republic of China‎^[35], archived from the original on 19 September 2021:

  The hsien magistrate shall have charge of hsien self-government and shall administer matters delegated to the hsien by the central or provincial government.

• 2022 May 30, Trinetra Paul, “10 best Asian whisky brands on our radar right now and where you can buy them”, in Lifestyle Asia‎^[36], archived from the original on 11 March 2023, Dining:

  Nestled in Nantou Hsien, Taiwan, this distillery was founded by the Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corporation in 1978, however, it was only in 2008 that it produced its first whisky.