Shanxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɑnˈʃi/
enpr: shänʹshēʹ
homophone: Shaanxi
Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝西 /陕西 (Shǎnxī).
Senses: examples: text: The "Yenan Period," 1935-1947, was the decisive decade of the Chinese Revolution.*[…]
Liu Bao-zhei had helped create the Yenan spirit; he had joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937, leaving his home in Henan Province to fight the Japanese in the North. We met Liu on a state farm nestled in the Nanniwan Valley, near Yenan. His face, rough and creased, reflected many years of labor in the harsh climate of northern Shanxi Province. Liu wore a towel tied about his head in the traditional peasant fashion of the area.
ref: 1975, Janet Goldwasser, Stuart Dowty, “Principles of Chinese Socialism”, in Huan-Ying: Worker's China, Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 298:
text: My survey deals with the ancient silk road between the former Changan, now Xian in Shanxi (Shanhsi) Province, proceeds to the Gansu Province and finally to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. It is primarily the Northern route which led through the land of the Mongols, Tibetans and Uighurs.
ref: 1984 [1983 September 2], Peter Thiele, “The Ancient Silk Road in Northwestern China Today”, in Yamamoto Tatsuro, editor, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Congress of Human Sciences in Asia and North Africa, volume I, Tokyo: The Tōhō Gakkai (The Institute of Eastern Culture), →OCLC, page 376:
text: After the Red Army sets up headquarters at Yanan in north Shanxi province, he accepts a frontline post in repelling the Japanese invasion, and becomes commander of the New Fourth Army.
ref: 1997, Donald J. Marion, The Chinese Filmography: The 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People's Republic of China from 1949 through 1995, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
text: A fervent believer in an afterlife, Qin Shihuang ordered his tomb to be guarded by 8,000 terra-cotta statues. This grandiose resting place was accidentally disinterred in 1976 by farmers digging a well in the ancient capital, Xian, during a drought.
Dr. Huang broached the idea of a terra-cotta exhibit on a trip to Shanxi Province, where Xian is located, three years ago.
ref: 2000 December 6, Mark Landler, “Could Terra-Cotta Warriors Be a Trojan Horse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2023, World, page 2:
text: Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.
ref: 2002, “Cleaning the Yellow River”, in 修月祯 [Xiu Yuezhen], editor, 旅游英语教程 [Lü you ying yu jiao cheng], Beijing: Renmin University of China, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 256–257:
english: Lü you ying yu jiao cheng
translation: Lü you ying yu jiao cheng
text: 634 ·The Palace of Great Clarity, an imperial resort including residential and official buildings, is constructed northwest of Chang’an in Shanxi Province.
636 ·The Zhaoling (Clarity Tomb) of Emperor Taizong is built in Liquan County, Shanxi Province. The tomb includes the well-known stone sculpture Six Horses of the Clarity Tomb.
ref: 2003, Guangqiu Xu, Imperial China, 617-1644 (World Eras), volume 7, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:
text: In China, an outbreak of endemic human selenosis was reported in Enshi District, Hubei Province, and in Ziyang County, Shanxi Province, during the 1960s.
ref: 2005, Fiona Fordyce, “Selenium Deficiency and Toxicity in the Environment”, in Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 400:
text: Production around the town of Ankang, a hundred miles south of Xian in Shanxi province, dropped by 25 per cent.
ref: 2008, James MacManus, Ocean Devil, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:
glosses: Alternative form of Shaanxi, a province in northwestern China. Capital: Xi'an.