Tianzhen

On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.

[1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, “The Flight from Peking and the Court in Exile”, in China Under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 223

Recently in Tienchen County, the Kweichow Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Bureau convened a forum on rice cultivation, attended by responsible cadres of the agricultural bureaus of a number of regions, autonomous chou and counties and persons concerned, together with a number of poor and lower-middle peasants.

[1973 May 15 [1973 May 11], “Kweichow Forum on Rice Cultivation Notes Shortcomings”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 94, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Kweiyang Kweichow Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: Southwest Region, page E 3

Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.

2015 April 4, “Just a little bit richer”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2020, China