Shansi

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A form of Shanxi — A province in the northern part of China. Capital: Taiyuan.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

proper noun
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of Shanxi.

    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.

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

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

    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.

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

    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, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274

    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.

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

    China’s remaining poverty is primarily rural, mainly scattered among remote, mountainous, and minority nationality areas in the northwest and southwest. To address this challenge China is shifting from regional development projects to household-based initiatives that are increasingly directed at women. One especially successful example has been the poverty alleviation program sponsored by the Luliang Prefecture Women’s Federation (LPWF) in Shansi province.

    2002, Sam Daley-Harris, Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families, Kumarian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137
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