Shanyin
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See also: shānyīn
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mandarin 山陰/山阴 (Shānyīn).
Proper noun
[edit]Shanyin
- A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.
- 2010 December 13, Eric Ng, “Modernisation drive leaves trail of ghost mines”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 January 2024, Latest[2]:
- One example is the Youyi mine in Shanyin county, a district of Shanxi under the administration of Shuozhou city. […]
In Shanyin, 20 out of 21 mines have been ordered to shut down and be overhauled, said the mine's managing director, Sun Chuntian. […]
Of Shanyin county's 21 coal mines, the number closed for reconstruction and revamp is: 20
- 2011 September 17, Carrie Ho, “ChinaCoal's Shaanxi[sic – meaning Shanxi] mines closed after fatal accident”, in Ruth Pitchford, editor, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 2023-08-11, Environment[4]:
- 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. […]
The workers’ bodies were retrieved on Saturday after they had been trapped underground in the flooded coal mine in Shanyin County a day ago.
- (historical) A county of Zhejiang, China, part of modern-day Shaoxing.
- 1960, Tse-tsung (周策縱) Chow, “The Initial Phase of the Movement: Early Literary and Intellectual Activities, 1917-1919”, in The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China[5], Harvard University Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
- Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin.
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Shanyin”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2886, column 1
- Shanyin, Shan-yin at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.