Citations:Shansi

English citations of Shansi

Shanxi

1 Yuan (Reverse), The Shansi Provincial Bank, (1936)

Map including SHANSI PROVINCE 山西省 (AMS, 1956)

• 1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9.‎^[1], T. Fisher Unwin, page 76:

  On the road between this place and Fu Chou, two days further east, numerous large flicks of sheep and goats were passed. These poor animals were on their way to Shansi, and had already come a great distance.

• 1913, Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, D.D., Twenty-five Years in Honan‎^[2], Toronto: Hunter-Rose Co., page 2:

  The province is separated by a range of hills from Shansi on the north and west, while in the south, the eastern end of a long mountain chain terminates near Ju Ning Fu.

• 1937 December 14, “AMERICANS VANISH IN CHINA; Missionaries Not Seen Since Leaving Japanese-Held Town”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06, page 23‎^[4]:

  Three American missionaries were reported today to have disappeared from Shouyang in East Shansi Province. They have not been seen since the night of Dec. 2, when they left the mission to visit a friend.

• 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry‎^[5], London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:

  Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.

• 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949‎^[6], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 259:

  Headmen were selected on a rotation basis in Shansi but served indefinitely in Hopei and Shantung until illness or dissatisfaction with their responsibilities forced retirement.

• 1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology‎^[7], West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:

  Ting-ts'un Man, who lived in the watersheds in southern Shansi, continued to use pebble and flake chopping-tools, crude flakes being obtained mainly from large hornfels pebbles.

• 1977 [1977 June 21], “China Rebuilds House in Honor of Bethune”, in Peter Slater, editor, Religion and Culture in Canada: Essays by Members of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion‎^[8], sourced from The Globe and Mail, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 314:

  The Lingchiu County party committee in north China's Shansi province also has repaired an operating room in the special surgical hospital in Yangchinchuang used by Dr. Bethune between Nov. 25, 1937, and Feb. 10, 1939, Hsinhua said.

• 1981 August 2, “What's ahead of demoted Hua?”, in Free China Weekly‎^[9], volume XXII, number 30, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  We now know that he was born in Shansi province in 1921, but the next thing we know is that because of the "good work" Hua did in Mao's native province of Hunan, he was summoned to Peiping and given the post of public security minister.

• 1983, Tan Fang, To Mr. Teng Hsiao-Ping: A Frank Discussion of Red China's Problems‎^[10], Kuang Lu Pub. Service, →OCLC, page 50:

  Hao Ming is my name and I came from Lingshih county of Shansi province, though I was born at Yenan.

• 2017, J. (Hans) Kommers, Triumphant Love‎^[11], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 522:

  Jonathan Goforth, CIM missionary to China, who experienced several revivals in Manchuria, Shansi, and in Korea from 1906 to 1910, was very disappointed by the outcome of the Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.

• 2022 January 3, Dishan Joseph, “Understanding Chinese heritage and culture”, in Daily Mail‎^[12], archived from the original on 02 January 2022:

  Chinese historical tradition has it that the semi-historical rulers, Yao and Shun, and the first official dynasty, the Hsia dynasty ruled over parts of China with a centre in southern Shansi.

Other

• 1973, John Gittings, “How the Dragon's Backbone was Invented”, in A Chinese View of China‎^[13], 1st American edition, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

  Very little is known about Ma Chun's early life. He was born in a poor family in what is today Hsingping county in Shansi^{[sic – meaning Shensi]} province.