Shansi

English

1 Yuan (Reverse), from THE SHANSI PROVINCIAL BANK (1936)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Shansi

1. Obsolete spelling of Shanxi.
   • 1912, Robert Sterling Clark, Arthur de Carle Sowerby, Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9.‎^[1], T. Fisher Unwin, page 76:

     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.

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

     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.

   • 1970, Ramon H. Myers, The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949‎^[3], Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, page 259:

     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.

   • 1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology‎^[4], West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274:

     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.

   • 1981 August 2, “What's ahead of demoted Hua?”, in Free China Weekly‎^[5], volume XXII, number 30, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

     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.

   • 2002, Sam Daley-Harris, Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families‎^[6], Kumarian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 137:

     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.

   • 2017, J. (Hans) Kommers, Triumphant Love‎^[7], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 522:

     Jonathan Goforth, CIM missionary to China, who experienced several revivals in Manchuria, Shansi, and in Korea from 1906 to 1910, was very disappointed by the outcome of the Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shansi.

Further reading

• “Shansi, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Shansi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• nashis, Sinhas, Shains, Sahnis, Sahins, Nashis, ishans