Fanshi

A recent enlarged meeting of the standing committee of the Fanshih County Revolutionary Committee pledged to study and apply Chairman Mao's philosophical thinking and to make big efforts to learn from Tachai.

[1970 October 19 [1970 October 16], “Taiyuan Committee Leads in Study of Mao's Philosophy”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 203, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 3

After criticizing swindlers like Liu Shao-chi, poor and lower-middle peasants of the (Aotzutou) brigade in Fanshih County "turned their righteous anger into strength and did one and a half days' work in one day." These examples greatly inspired the cadres.

[1972 March 7 [1972 March 5], “Party Promotes Criticims Campaign in Shansi Region”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 46, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 10

Scholars have been intrigued to learn of an almost one-to-one correspondence between the plan of the Jin palace city as described in Lanbei lu and the plan derived from paintings of Buddhist paradises on the walls of the south hall of Yanshan Monastery in Fanshi county, Shanxi.

2002, Guo Daiheng, “The Liao, Song, Xi Xia, and Jin Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150

The higher authorities saw all such activity as a counterrevolutionary attempt to infiltrate state and Party organs from within, but it is likely that some officials and Party members saw no contradiction between their political and religious affiliations, especially in areas, such as Fanshi County, where the sects were fairly well integrated into community life.

2015, S. A. Smith, “Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s”, in Jeremy Brown, Matthew D. Johnson, editors, Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 350–351