Citations:Shaanxi

English citations of Shaanxi

Shaanxi Province (Capital: Xi'an)

• [1738, J. B. Du Halde, “PROVINCE IX. SHAN-SI.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, →OCLC, page 106:

  THIS Province which is one of the leaſt in China, is bounded on the Eaſt by the Province of Pe-che-li ; on the South by that of Ho-nan, on the Weſt by Shen-ſi ; and on the North it is ſeparated from Tartary by the Great Wall.]

• [1856, Thomas Taylor Meadows, The Chinese and their Rebellions‎^[2], London: Smith, Elder & Co., →OCLC, page 176:

  The fact, therefore, that the Tae pings, when they raised the siege of Hwae king on the 1st September marched westwards by it into Shan se, shows that the Imperial forces were strong enough to prevent their descent by the Wei river.]

• [1963 June 24, Chung-chien Yang, “Questions of Neotectonics in the Northern Foothills of the Ch'inling”, in V. N. Pavlinov, editor, Works of the First Conference on Neotectonics in China‎^[3], →OCLC, page 123:

  In the fluvial deposits which have developed to the west of the village of T'ungeshanchen in Yuanchu County of Shenhsi Province, one can find the Nihewan fauna (Axis rugosus, etc.).]

• [1977, Jean Chesneaux, Françoise Le Barbier, Marie-Claire Bergère, translated by Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, China from the 1911 Revolution to Liberation‎^[4], Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78, 85:

  In 1920, the five provinces of Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Shenxi (those affected by the terrible famine of 1876-1878) suffered severe drought. […]
  In the summer of 1921, a militant nationalist from the province, Yu You-ren, launched a movement for the independence of Shenxi, supported by a “Citizens’ Assembly.” For the Guomindang, the operation had strategic as well as political interest. Shenxi, where Sun Yat-sen had looked for support in 1911 and again in 1916, offered the Canton dissidents a possible base for diversionary operations in the North, as well as for taking their enemy in the rear.]

• 1979 July, “2,000-year-old Paper”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[5], volume XVIII, number 7, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51:

  Three pieces of paper which may date back to between 73 and 49 BC were recently found in Fufeng county, Shaanxi province.

• 1979 August, Lan Cao, “Tomb of the Yellow Emperor”, in China Reconstructs‎^[6], volume XXVIII, number 8, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 64, column 1:

  HUANG DI, the legendary Yellow Emperor to whom is attributed the founding of the Chinese nation about 2000 B.C., is said to have been buried on the loess plateau. There is a tomb in Shaanxi province’s Huangling county which has long been honored as his.

• 1984, Pan Jiang (P'an Kiang), “The Phylogenetic Position of the Eugaleaspida in China”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales‎^[7], volume 107, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 311:

  Relevant new discoveries in China, not yet described, include polybranchiaspids and hanyangaspids which were recently (1981-82) recovered from an Early Silurian formation in western Hunan Province of south China, and in southern Shaanxi Province, west China.

• 2019 January 13, “21 die in China coal mine collapse”, in EFE‎^[8], archived from the original on 13 January 2019:

  Twenty one people were killed in China after the roof of a coal mine collapsed in Lijiagou, in the central province Shaanxi, state media reported on Sunday.

Shanxi Province (Capital: Taiyuan)

• 1995 October 31, “Archaeologists Find Remains of Soldiers Buried Alive 2,000 Years Ago”, in AP News‎^[9], archived from the original on 17 March 2023‎^[10]:

  But it said the pit dates to the cruelest military campaign of the Warring States period of 476 to 221 B.C. When commander Zhao Kuo was killed, 300,000 of his troops surrendered to rival Qin forces. All were buried alive.
  The pit was discovered in Gaoping, a city 350 miles southwest of Beijing in central China’s Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} province.

• 2011 September 17, Carrie Ho, “ChinaCoal's Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} mines closed after fatal accident”, in Ruth Pitchford, editor, Reuters‎^[11], archived from the original on 2023-08-11, Environment‎^[12]:

  China National Coal Group Corp’s (ChinaCoal) mining operations in north Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} Province were suspended after eight miners died in a colliery flooding at one of the company’s subsidiaries there, state media Xinhua News reported.
  Shaanxi^{[sic – meaning Shanxi]} Vice Governor Li Xiaopeng said the flooding exposed “serious problems” in the implementation of safety measures and vowed a thorough investigation into the accident. […]
  The workers’ bodies were retrieved on Saturday after they had been trapped underground in the flooded coal mine in Shanyin County a day ago.