Jishan

alternative Chi-shan · alternative Chishan

1. A county of Yuncheng, Shanxi, China.

   Comrade Zuo Ming was born in 1921 in Jishan County, Shanxi Province. He took part in the revolution in 1930 and joined the CPC in 1938.

   1983 June 16 [1983 May 26], Xu Shijie, quotee, “Guangdong's Ren Zhongyi Attends Memorial Meeting”, in Daily Report: China, volume I, number 117, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Guangzhou GUANGZHOU RIBAO, p 1, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Central-South Region, page P 1

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   In their first paper (T. Hong et al., 1992), Paeonia ostii was described as a new tree peony that is widely cultivated in China for medicine; P. jishanensis was described as a new species from Jishan County, Shanxi Province, and was stated to differ from P. suffruticosa var. spontanea Rehder in having white flowers and non-petaloid stamens; P. yananensis was based on a specimen from a forest near the Peony Garden in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province; and P. suffruticosa subsp. rockii S. G. Haw & Lauener was raised to specific rank, but this new combination was invalid.

   2010, De-Yuan Hong, “History of Taxonomic Studies of Paeonia”, in Peonies of the World: Taxonomy and Phytogeography, Kew Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 19

   The Jishan Article Case In April 2007, Nan Huirong, Xue Zhijing and Yang Qinyu, three technology officials in Jishan County, Shanxi Province, wrote an article that expressed discontent with the situation in Jishan, criticized County Party Secretary Li Runshan in a number of ways, and adduced evidence to back their complaints.

   2012 [2008 February 19], Liu Xiaobo, “Imprisoning People for Words and the Power of Public Opinion”, in Louisa Chiang, transl., No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212

   In addition, nine tombs of the Duan family cemetery with extravagant interior wall reliefs, known as the Macun Tombs, were found in the village of Macun in Jishan County, forty-five miles west of Houma.

   2016, Jeehee Hong, “Theater of the Dead”, in Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000-1400, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75

   Medical workers in protective suits collect swabs from residents at a nucleic acid testing site during a third round of mass testing following cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Yuncheng's Jishan county, Shanxi province, China December 29, 2021.

   2022 January 1, Min Zhang, Tony Munroe, “China reports 191 new COVID-19 cases for Jan 1 vs 231 day earlier”, in Neil Fullick, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, China