Dingxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 定襄 (Dìngxiāng).

I knew a young woman of twenty who lived in the town of Tinghsiang in the province of Shansi. She worked in a clothing cooperative and earned thirty yuans a month.

[1960, Suzanne Labin, “The Schoolmistress Shuen, the Midwife Yu, the Feminist Mee and a Group of Chinese Women”, in Edward Fitzgerald, transl., The Anthill: The Human Condition In Communist China, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 312:

In the memorial speech Chang Chen said: Comrade Chang Lien-kuei was a native of Tinghsiang County, Shansi Province. As a youngster, he actively took part in revolutionary activities. He was admitted to the CCP in December 1935. He had served successively as secretary of the Tinghsiang County CCP Committee, secretary of the second area party committee of the Peiyueh District of the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei border region and concurrently political commissar of the Second Military District, PLA political commissar, vice minister of the First Ministry of Machine Building and the Second Ministry of Machine Building, and vice minister of the Third Ministry of Machine Building.

[1978 May 8 [1978 May 4], “Leaders Attend Memorial Service for Chang Lien-kuei”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 89, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, National Affairs, page E 1:

The mural in the Holingor Han tomb shows that toward the end of the Eastern Han at the latest Dingxiang 定襄 Prefecture (in the north of modern Shanxi, transferred there from Inner Mongolia) also had mulberry cultivation.

1982, Zhongshu Wang, translated by K. C. Chang et al., Han Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

In neighbouring Xinxian prefecture, immediately to the south of Yanbei, is Hengshan brigade, Dingxiang county.

1992, Simon G. Powell, “Yanbei prefecture: specialised production”, in Agricultural Reform in China: From Communes to Commodity Economy, 1978-1990 (Studies on East Asia), Manchester University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 179:


Hequ

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 河曲 (Héqū).

A few months ago, however, hope came to the boys and girls of the region. The Provincial Government of Suiyan had sent word that all young people who could escape into Free China could go to school at government expense. Between Suiyan City and Hochu, where the refugee students were to gather, lay nearly four hundred miles of unknown country, mostly desert. Those undertaking the journey must first cross the Yellow River which separated occupied territory from Free China, and the river was strongly patrolled by the enemy.

[1945 October, Jeanette Eaton, “Escape”, in Story Parade, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

On leaving Shenchi, the way lay up a wide valley, on a good road. Then we took to the hills in Wuzhai (Wuchai) county, winding amongst mountain ridges, until we came to Hequ (Hochu) county, where there were more mountains, wild serrated loess country, but everywhere trees and then more trees.

1979 January, Rewi Alley, “Yanbei and Xinxian Prefectures in 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVIII, number 1, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 1:

Before this moment of truth in the middle of the river, I had wondered what had happened to the Christians. Why did I only meet a few? The explanation offered was that the younger Christians had left for Inner Mongolia, where there are now 20,000 residents from Hequ County. There are only 120,000 people left in Hequ County, and 10,000 in Hequ city, the same number as there were during the bombing in 1939. While the population in the rest of China has more than doubled, Hequ has not grown.

2004, Kari Torjesen Malcolm, We Signed Away Our Lives: How One Family Gave Everything for the Gospel, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 173:

In Hequ county in Shanxi province, two thirds of public servants have been effectively laid off, bursting the bubbles of the so-called iron rice bowl from an occupation which traditionally had guaranteed job security.

2022 September 15, Luna Sun, “China’s fiscal woes highlighted as local authorities turn to fines, traffic tickets to boost revenues”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-09-15, China Economy:


Shanyin

One example is the Youyi mine in Shanyin county, a district of Shanxi under the administration of Shuozhou city.[…]
In Shanyin, 20 out of 21 mines have been ordered to shut down and be overhauled, said the mine's managing director, Sun Chuntian.[…]
Of Shanyin county's 21 coal mines, the number closed for reconstruction and revamp is: 20

2010 December 13, Eric Ng, “Modernisation drive leaves trail of ghost mines”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-28, Latest:

China National Coal Group Corp’s (ChinaCoal) mining operations in north Shaanxi^([sic – meaning Shanxi]) Province were suspended after eight miners died in a colliery flooding at one of the company’s subsidiaries there, state media Xinhua News reported.[…]
The workers’ bodies were retrieved on Saturday after they had been trapped underground in the flooded coal mine in Shanyin County a day ago.

2011 September 17, Carrie Ho, “ChinaCoal's Shaanxi^([sic – meaning Shanxi]) mines closed after fatal accident”, in Ruth Pitchford, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-08-11, Environment:

Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin.

1960, Tse-tsung (周策縱) Chow, “The Initial Phase of the Movement: Early Literary and Intellectual Activities, 1917-1919”, in The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China, Harvard University Press, published 1980, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:

In 1903 Ts'ai Yüan-p'ei, a native of Shaohsing's Shan-yin county and later to become famous as Chancellor of Peking University, gave a speech to a group of fellow Shaohsing natives living in Shanghai.

[1986, James H. Cole, “Introduction”, in Shaohsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century China, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:

(historical) A county of Zhejiang, China, part of modern-day Shaoxing.


Baode

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 保德.

In the past, the Kuochiachuang production brigade of Paote County had to depend on the state for its supply of grain.

[1970 December 16 [1970 December 7], “Shansi Peasants Emulate Tachai, Win Bumper Harvest”, in Daily Report: Communist China, number 243, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, North Region, page F 5:

The bronzes found at Ch'ao-tao-kou - a dagger with a decorated handle and a ram-head pommel, an ax with a tubular socket, and four knives with arched backs decorated with pommels in the form of a rattle or a ram-head knob - and at analogous sites, such as Lin-che-yü (Pao-te county, Shensi),³⁰ have contributed greatly to defining the Northern Zone as a distinct cultural complex.

[2002, Nicola Di Cosmo, Ancient China and its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Power in East Asian History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:

In 2003 in Shanxi Province, the director of the Xuanbo Joint Cokeoven Plant ordered his workers to attack a television reporter from CCTV who was investigating pollution at the plant. The reporter was rescued by a SEPA delegation that arrived shortly thereafter, which then ordered the local environmental enforcement group in Baode County to protect his right to investigate.

2005, Elizabeth Economy, “Environmental Enforcement in China”, in Kristen A. Day, editor, China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 116:

The National Development and Reform Commission has approved Shanxi Tongde Aluminium Company's plan to build a 1 million-tonne-per-year alumina refinery in Baode county in Shanxi province in the north, a statement posted on the commission website showed. It did not provide the completion time.

2011 July 20, “China to add 1 mln tonnes of alumina capacity -NDRC”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-11-24, Commodities:


Yangqu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 陽曲／阳曲.

Autumn 1947 saw Hua as Party secretary of Yangchu county in Shansi and political commissar to the local forces there.

[1977 February, Tsung-ying Lee, “Eastern Diary”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:

Tou Pu-yi, the grandson of a famous minister of the Wu Teh Era¹, served as captain of the Imperial Guard before retiring on account of old age. He went home to Taiyuan where he had a house in Yangchu County, north of the city.

[1986, Niu Su, “Tou Pu-yi [窦不疑]”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., Ghost Stories of Old China [不怕鬼的故事] (Asia Pacific Heritage Series [亚洲太平洋传统文学丛书]), Asiapac Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:

The issue of funding temple festivals, however, would not go away; missionaries repeatedly asked the French minister to address this problem. For example, in a letter that arrived in Beijing on 2 December 1861 describing the situation in Yangqu County in Taiyuan Prefecture, a missionary complained that even though the Zongli yamen had sent a document on these matters to provincial authorities, nothing had changed.

1996, Roger R. Thompson, “Twilight of the Gods in the Chinese Countryside: Christians, Confucians, and the Modernizing State, 1861-1911”, in Daniel H. Bays, editor, Christianity in China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 58:

Local residents hold flags of various nations to form the Olympic Rings to celebrate the Spring Festival and promote the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on the Loess Plateau in Yangqu country, Shanxi province February 16, 2008.

2008 March 5, Liu Zhen, Nick Mulvenney, “China ramps up psychology and downplays medal hopes”, in Alastair Himmer, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-28, Sports News:


Pingding

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 平定 (Píngdìng).


Jiaokou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 交口 (Jiāokǒu).

Jiaokou County adopted a new process for refining sulfur, which raised the sulfur recovery rate from 40% to 80%, and the waste gas discharge met the State set standards.

2006, “Technical Progress of TVEs”, in He Kang [何康], editor, China's Township and Village Enterprises [中国的乡镇企业], 1st edition, Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 233–234:

An epidemiological study carried out by the Beijing Pediatric Research Institute in Zhongyang County and Jiaokou County in the Lüliang mountain areas between 2000 and 2004 showed that birth defects in these two areas were as high as 71.8 per thousand and 91.7 per thousand,⁵⁸ i.e. between seven and nine newborns out of a hundred are defective births.

2009, Yulin Zhang, “China's War on its Environment and Farmers' Rights: A Study of Shanxi Province”, in Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China: Chinese and Canadian Perspectives, University of Ottawa Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 165:

The company planned to export the bauxite to its alumina refinery in Jiaokou, Shanxi Province, China (CRU Alumina Monitor, 2011g).

2011, Minerals Yearbook, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10.4:

In the 2000s, in Jiaokou County (Shanxi) a local mine owner provided the village with a new primary school building, and paid the salaries of local teachers and indeed of the village cadres (Nandu zhoukan 2009c).

2012, Tim Wright, “The rural coal mines and their owners: social costs and benefits”, in The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-stained Coal, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:

In April 2015, authorities in Huilong village, Jiaokou county, Luliang municipality, Shanxi province, detained more than 10 people who had joined a multi-day protest of several hundred people demonstrating against pollution linked to an aluminum plant.

2015, “Congressional-Executive Commission on China Annual Report 2015”, in Congressional-Executive Commission on China, →ISBN, page 216:

Red mud is also what prompted the Chinese authorities to order the closure of Xinfa Group’s Jiaokou alumina refinery in Shanxi.

2019 May 16, Andy Home, “Chinese outages a reminder of aluminum's dirty secret: Andy Home”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2019-05-16:


Zhongyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 中陽／中阳 (Zhōngyáng).

The Kings of Ch'in and Chao met at Chung-yang 中陽.³⁶⁸

1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, “The Ch'in, Basic Annals Five”, in William Nienhauser, editor, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

Zhongyang County, affiliated to Lvliang City of Shanxi Province administratively, is located at the western side of the middle range of Lvliang Mountain in the west of Shanxi Province.

2009, Wang Jinming, Li Guangjie, editors, Zhongyang Paper-cutting, Shanxi People's Publishing House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 002:

The man, Liu Renwang, was accused of shooting to death a village official in Shanxi Province in 2008. He says the drawings show how the local police went about extracting a confession from him for a crime he did not commit.[…]
He said the officers who tortured him were from the Zhongyang County Public Security Bureau. A woman who answered the phone at the bureau on Monday afternoon said she did not know about the case and declined to comment.
Mr. Liu said that he had asked several painters in Zhongyang to illustrate his experiences but that they all turned him down for fear of retaliation by the police.

2015 August 10, Vanessa Piao, Austin Ramzy, “Drawings of Police Torture Seize China’s Attention”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-08-11, Asia Pacific:


Wutai

Born in Wu T'ai county, Shansi, in 1902, in a landlord family, Hsu was educated at a normal school; in 1924 he entered Whampoa Academy.

[1938, Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China, Grove Press, published 1978, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 513:

Wutai county has already re-forested a million mou of hillside, and has plans for a further 800,000 mou to be tackled in the immediate future. But there is a long way to go yet before the whole of Wutai is anything like what it was when the huge trees that were cut to make the pillars and beams of temples like Fu Kwang Ssu were still standing.

1966 February, Rewi Alley, “Wutai Revisited”, in Eastern Horizon, volume V, number 2, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 1:

Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and meticulously catalogued Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha’s Light, in Wutai County, Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple was built in 857 A.D., making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest known).

2018 April 11, Daniel E. Slotnik, “Overlooked No More: Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng, Chroniclers of Chinese Architecture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-12, Obituaries:


Youyu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 右玉 (Yòuyù).

Shansi.[…]
Yuyu County has a population of some 80,000. (NCNA in Chinese 0240 gmt 6 Oct 77)[…]
Yuyu County has afforested a total of 640,000 mou since 1971 and, as a result, 40% of the land previously subject to water and soil erosion has now been brought under control. (NCNA in Chinese 0240 gmt 6 Oct 77)

[1977, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, pages 1, 14:

Having been constructed to keep the barbarians out, the Great Wall was now welcoming the World Bank. I contacted the local government, to see if somebody could give an introduction to the project, and a cadre agreed to meet me. He was the director of the Youyu County tax bureau, and he told me that over the past two years the local government had received nearly three million dollars in loans from the World Bank.[…]
Here in Youyu County, the government was proud of their World Bank project, and figures piled up in my notebook. They intended to plant 1,400 hectares of trees around the Ming fort; currently Youyu County had successfully controlled erosion in 28 percent of their target region; their final goal was 53 percent.

2010, Peter Hessler, “The Wall”, in Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 38–39:

In a windswept location in the Mu Us Desert (Ordos Desert), Youyu County of Shanxi Province is a barren land battered by sandstorms and with minimal natural resources. In the early days of the People’s Republic, the county’s first Party secretary led the people to initiate an afforestation project to curb encroachment by the sand.

2018 [2015 January 12], Xi Jinping, “Be a Good County Party Secretary”, in The Governance of China, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159:

The government of Youyu County, hundreds of kilometers (miles) west of Beijing showed a dirt road cut through a section of the wall against a rural landscape, along with the two suspects, identified as a 38-year-old man surnamed Zheng and a 55-year-old woman surnamed Wang.

2023 September 6, “China authorities arrest 2 for smashing shortcut through Great Wall with excavator”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-09-06, World News:


Shilou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石樓／石楼.

Similar spoons with pendants have been excavated from the graves of China's northern pastoral neighbors west of the Taihang Mountains at Chujiayu, Shilou county, Shanxi Province.

2002, Emma C. Bunker, “Catalogue”, in Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 192, column 2:

These dwellings are made by digging out a living area from the top of a thick loess deposit. For the Longshan period, such dwellings have been discovered at Chagou in Shilou County, Shanxi, and Zhaojialai in Wugong County, Shaanxi Province, as well as at Taosi.[…]
Crocodile-shaped gong vessel. Shilou, Luliang County, Shanxi Province. Shang dynasty. Shanxi Provincial Museum.[…]
Zhongguo shehui kexueyuan kaogu yanjiusuo Shanxi gongzuodui 中国社会科学院考古研究所山西工作队 (1985), "Shanxi Shilou Chagou yuanshi wenhua yicun 山西石楼岔沟原始文化遗存 (The primitive cultural remains at the Chagou site in Shilou, Shanxi),” Kaogu xuebao 考古学报, no. 2;[…]

2005, Kwang-chih Chang, The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 91, 171, 319:


Xiangyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄垣 (Xiāngyuán).

In the spring of 1938 the Japanese imperialists invaded Yü-tz'u and T'ai-ku in Shansi. Everyone was in panic as the flames of war came closer and closer to Hsiang-yüan hsien.

[1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 168:

They labored on the railroad embankment, section by section, from West Changchih Station all the way north to Wuyang, the village in Hsiangyuan County that in 1971 served as the northern terminus of the line.

[1983, William Hinton, “Two Dams and a Railroad”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 226:

More than 100 pastors, co-workers and representatives of believers of the Christian Church in Quwo County gathered to bid farewell to the female believer Liu Chang’e who was born on April 17, 1926 in Shizidao Village, Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province and was called to heaven at 9:35 a.m. on June 9, 2022, at the age of 97.

2022 June 22, Xiaohua Zhang, “Believers Bid Farewell to 97-Y-O Christian Who Was Spiritual Mother of Many”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2022-07-19:


Shouyang

Three American missionaries were reported today to have disappeared from Shouyang in East Shansi Province. They have not been seen since the night of Dec. 2, when they left the mission to visit a friend.

1937 December 14, “AMERICANS VANISH IN CHINA; Missionaries Not Seen Since Leaving Japanese-Held Town”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06, page 23:

The article looked at the situation in Shouyang county, adjacent to Hsiyang county, Shansi, home of Tachai. Shouyang, according to Red Flag, had failed to benefit from proximity to China's agricultural pace-setter, for class enemies[…]

1974, Current Scene: Developments in Mainland China, volumes 12-13, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:

After he had passed the imperial examination in Peking, he acquired the title of jinshi* and was appointed a Hanlin (imperial college) academician by the Qing court. He was Prefect of Shouyang County in Shanxi Province.

1998, Xiao-meng Qin, “The Qin Clan”, in Heartbeats and Heartaches: Memoirs of an Intellectual Family in China, 1stBooks Library, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:

Using examples from Shouyang county in Shanxi province, this paper discusses the concepts of locality in both official and local sources, especially in the context of financing local cults.

2017, Luo Weiwei [羅娓娓], “Locality and Temple Fundraising in Northern Qing China”, in Hsun Chang [張珣], Benjamin Perry [裴凝], editors, Religion in Taiwan and China: Locality and Transmission [台灣與中國之宗教:地方性與傳承], Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:

台灣與中國之宗教:地方性與傳承


Lingshi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 靈石／灵石.

On 28 December 1937, a force of twenty-five men led by a platoon commander was dispatched to a village in Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, for pacification activity and to scout enemy movements.

1995, Tanaka Norio, “A Memorial to Three War Buddies”, in Beth Cary, transl., edited by Frank Gibney, Sensō: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 78:

Rescuers prepare to go down a coal mine at Nanshan Colliery in Lingshi county, China, November 15, 2006. Chinese police are investigating the death of a reporter beaten up while probing the country's deadly coal mines, media reported on Wednesday amid a growing outcry.

2007 January 21, Chris Buckley, Guo Shipeng, Vivi Lin, “China outcry grows over beating death of reporter”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-13, World News:


Wuxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 武鄉／武乡 (Wǔxiāng).

[…]the anti-Japanese base areas in Shansi (in Wu-hsiang County) and Shantung (Wen-teng County). The report also cited villages in Lu Shan County, Honan, an area which was liberated in 1948.

[1983, Kay Ann Johnson, “The 1950 Marriage Law”, in Women, the Family and Peasant Revolution in China (Asian studies/Women's studies), University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:

A man pretends to shoot during a live action role-playing game based on a computer game "Stalker", at a guerrilla warfare experiential park, one of two theme parks, on the outskirts of Wuxiang county, north China's Shanxi province, October 20, 2012.

2013 March 17, Jason Lee, “China replaces Britain in world's top five arms exporters - report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-06-30, Top News:


Pianguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 偏關／偏关 (Piānguān), a clipping of the original name 偏頭關／偏头关 (Piāntóuguān, “Crooked or Isolated Head Pass”).

Some 60% of the labour forces in Paote, Wuchai, Fanchih, Tai, Wutai and Pienkuan Counties were engaged in the work. Agricultural captial construction is being done on 24,000 sq km in the prefecture (Taiyuan, Shansi provinicial service 2300 gmt 3 Dec 76). Pienkuan County built 22,000 mow of Tachai-type fields in the past year.

[1976, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 3:

In 1958 and 1959 in conjunction with the execution of the Huanghe River (Yellow River) Water Conservancy Project, an investigation of paleolithic stone artifacts was conducted along the Huanghe River, from Togtoh County of the Nei Monggol (Inner Mongolian) Autonomous Region in the north to Pianguan County, Shanxi Province in the south, with Lamawan in Qingshuihe County as the center.

1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 130:

In the poor county of Pianguan in northern Shanxi, officials said declining local government revenues meant hardship for teachers and others paid from state coffers.

1998 June 2, Jasper Becker, “Axed workers take to streets as province suffers”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-26:


Qinyuan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁源.

The year 1943, when the army unit was fighting Japanese aggression around Chinyuan county in north China’s Shansi province, was a time of great difficulty.

[1972 December, Kun Chun, “Army Hospital Serves the People”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 12, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:

All five workers who were trapped after a roof collapsed at a coal mine in Shanxi province in northern China have been pronounced dead, state-run CCTV reported.
The incident occurred Friday at a Fenghuangtai Coal Industry Co. mine in Qinyuan county, China News reported.

2022 August 7, “China Coal Mine Collapse Death Toll Rises to Five Workers”, in Bloomberg News:


Zuoquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 左權／左权 (Zuǒquán, literally “Zuo Quan”), a general in the Chinese Red Army who died in 1942.

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Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.[...]The governor of our province has subscribed $500 (Mex.) toward the purchase of X-ray equipment for the Liao Chou Hospital.

[1924 May, “China Notes for February”, in The Missionary Visitor, volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143:

On July 7 of the same year, the Provisional Assembly of Representatives of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Border Area was inaugurated in Liaoxian County (now Zuoquan County), Shanxi Province.

1992, Deng Xiaoping, Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 314:

The "Xiaohuaxi" (small lantern dance) found in Zuoquan, Shanxi Province is also a kind of small local opera.

1999, 孙景琛 [Sun Jingchen], 罗雄岩 [Luo Xiongyan], 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], translated by Li Jinhui, Liu Jun, and Zhang Qizhi, edited by 资华筠 [Zi Huayun], 中国舞蹈 [Chinese Dance] (中国文化艺术丛书 [Chinese Culture and Art Series]), Beijing: 文化艺术出版社 [Culture and Art Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:

In mid-September of 2002, a month before the competition in Xianju, Zuoquan County organized a large-scale commemoration for a local Eighth Route Army general.

2020, Levi S. Gibbs, Faces of Tradition in Chinese Performing Arts, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL:


Wuqi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 吳起／吴起 (Wúqǐ, literally “Wu Qi”).

Wuqi has been able to try a different economic model because it is neither too rich nor too poor. Located in Shaanxi Province, about a third of the way west from Beijing toward Tibet, it is too remote to be a factory boomtown.[…]
In Wuqi, Internet service works quite well, and personal computers have become common in the last few years. “All my colleagues shop online,” says Ma Jingye, 24, who works for the county government. She was using the Internet regularly while she was going to college in Beijing, and when she returned to Wuqi this summer, she was surprised to find it had caught on there, too.

2010 November 24, David Leonhardt, “In China, Cultivating the Urge to Splurge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2011-05-12, Magazine:


Guangling

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣靈／广灵 (Guǎnglíng, “expansive spirit”).

The coalfields of Mentoukou and Chaitang, in the Western Hills of Peking, of Yuhsien, Yangyuan, and Hsuanhua in south-western Chahar, and of Kuangling and Tatung in northern Shansi are among the best known for their valuable Jurassic coal.

[1939, J. S. Lee, The Geology of China, London: Thomas Murby & Co., →OCLC, page 172:

The Nanchiaoshan Co-operative in Kuangling County originally had 14 households. But they became dissatisfied and 7 withdrew because nothing was done when the production-team leader (a rich peasant) and the bookkeeper made away with some 60 yuan of public money.

[1978 [1955 June 24], Yenpei Prefectural Party Committee, “A Stern Struggle Must be Waged Against Graft and Theft”, in General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editor, Socialist Upsurge in China's Countryside [中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）], First edition, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 481:

中国农村的社会主义高潮（选本）

In arresting criminals, conducting investigations, and accumulating evidence, Comrade Gao Yugui, a bailiff of the People's Procuratorate in Guangling County, Shanxi Province, worked hard for 8 days and nights in August 1983.

1984 June 19 [1984 June 6], “Supreme People's Procuratorate Work Report to NPC”, in Daily Report China, volume I, number 119, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 8:

A second incident concerned the activities of Shanxi Peace Preservation Corps forces (forces under Yan Xishan’s Second War Area and tenuously under Guomindang control) led by Bai Zhiyi.⁵⁰ These forces rampaged through Guangling county in Shanxi in mid-October 1939.

1989, Kathleen Hartford, “Repression and Communist Success: The Case of Jin-Cha-Ji, 1938-1943”, in Single Sparks: China's Rural Revolutions, M. E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:


Licheng

As for the People category, Huaifeng Li took first place with a beautiful photograph, entitled "Showtime," of a group of actors getting ready for an opera performance in Licheng County in China's Shanxi Province.

2019 June 12, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “2019 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year winners”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2019-06-13:


Fushan

Another example is Fushan County, 40 kilometers east of Linfen City, where cave dwellings predominate. The 120,000 people of the county are involved in the production of iron ore, coal, wine, and silk.

1990, Gideon S. Golany, Design and Thermal Performance: Below-ground Dwellings in China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 80:

From Jiamusi I took a local train to Fushan County, and for two hours I sat among Chinese passengers, some of whom looked like peasants.

2015, Ha Jin, A Map of Betrayal, Thorndike, Maine: Center Point Large Print, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:


Yushe

The Yü Shê County official is being entertained in our hospital at the present time. He had the misfortune to be thrown from his horse and broke his arm at the elbow. He has taken considerable interest in reading the Bible and other Christian literature. Yü Shê is the county adjoining Liao Chou on the west, and has been rather a difficult field.

[1924 May, “China Notes for February: Liao Chou”, in The Missionary Visitor, volume XXVI, number 5, →OCLC, page 143:

Shansi[…]Over the past 3 years, Yushe County has delivered 2,100,000 catties of medicinal herbs to the State. In the first 10 months of 1974, the county produced 600,000 catties of medicinal herbs, thus overfulfilling the annual procurement[…]

1975, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 12:

Deep canyons in a highly dissected plateau in Yushe County, Shanxi Province, China, expose the fossil-bearing deposits investigated by the American Museum and Chinese team.

1987 December, “Year in Review”, in Rotunda, volume 12, number 11, New York: Waldon Press, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:

Sending working teams to rectify backward party branches, and sending cadres to hold posts in rural areas, are also effective methods that should be continuously carried out after being summarized and perfected. At the same time, we should make great efforts to explore new methods. For example, Yushe County adopted the method of making rich villages merge with poor and smaller villages to improve backward party branches; this is a good method that suits the actual needs of poor mountain areas.

1995 October 25 [1995 August 26], Hu Fuguo, “Set Strict Demands, Do Solid Work, and Greet the Seventh Provincial Party Congress With Significant Achievements”, in FBIS, transl., Daily Report: China, number 95-206, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan SHANXI RIBAO (山西日报) 27 August 1995 pp 1, 2, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, North Region, page 79, columns 1–2:

It is a pity that no formal record of the first mammalian fossils obtained by Andersson's collectors from Yushe County can be found. Andersson did not pay much attention to the localities that yielded only poor fossils during his early exploration.

2013, Qiu Zhan-Xiang, Richard H. Tedford, “History and Scientific Exploration”, in Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12, column 1:


Xiangfen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 襄汾.

Three human teeth also came to light in 1954 at Locality 100 of Ting-ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, southern Shansi.

[1976, Kwang-chih Chang, “Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Foundations”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 56–57:

The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi Province's Xiangfen County also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said.[…]
"There were survivors on the first day and on the second day, but from day three, it's very likely that anyone we find in the future will be dead already," said a woman named Dong who heads the public relations department of Xiangfen County.

2008 September 10, “Rescue hopes fade after landslide in China kills dozens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-26, Asia Pacific:


Heshun

Shansi Province:
Establishment of Tsochuan (1563 2938) County with part of the administrative district of Hoshun County in the Chinchung Special District to become the administrative district of Tsochuan County. The county people's council is to be seated in the former seat of Tsochuan County.

[1960 April 20 [1960 April 17], “Changes Made in Administrative Areas”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 77, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page BBB 6:

But the additional detail in the tenancy map suggests a subtlety which was missing when we discussed inequality — missing perhaps because we do not have comprehensive hsien level data for the latter variable. That is that within-province variations in tenancy may in some cases yield a positive correlation with Communist influence. For example, not only does the county of Fushih (Yenan) appear darker than the surrounding areas (as we would expect from its rather high equal share percentage), other counties in other base areas show a similar tendency. Foup’ing in northwest Hopei (a county central to the Shansi-Chahar-Hopei base), Hoshun in southeast Shansi (the first county developed for the Shansi-Hopei-Shantung-Honan Border Region), and several of the counties in the north Anhwei bases stand out from their immediate background.

[1969, Roy Hofheinz, Jr., “The Ecology of Chinese Communist Success: Rural Influence Patterns, 1923-45”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:

Recent examples of environmental pollution and natural resource degradation issues faced by the investment community, government, and private citizens in China highlight the broad spectrum of China’s environmental and related health challenges. These challenges include drinking water shortages, such as those arising from the massive industrial accident in Chongqing municipality in December 2003."⁴ They also include harmful children’s health situations, such as the high congenital birth defect rates recently recorded in places such as Heshun County in Shanxi Province.⁵

2005, Richard J. Ferris Jr., Hongjun Zhang, “Environmental Law in the People's Republic of China”, in China's Environment and the Challenge of Sustainable Development, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 67:

A cluster of quakes ranging between magnitude 4.8 and 5.2 struck Heshun county in Shanxi on June 5.

2011 November 27, Raymond Li, “A dying art that could reduce tragedy”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-08-02:


Jiaocheng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 交城 (Jiāochéng).

In 1972, when the Chiaocheng County Trucking Company in Shansi province over 1,000 kilometers to the north bought five electronic ignition systems from the Fatshan plant, it sent workers and technicians to help the buyers master their use, returning only when they were satisfied.

[1974 February, “China's Young Electronics Industry”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:

Chiaocheng County
Chiaocheng county lies 60 kilometres southwest of Taiyuan. It is in the prefecture of Luliang, and a goodly part of it is in the Luliang Mountains, with the peak of Yunmeng Mountain dominating. It is well known as the birthplace of Chairman Hua Kuo-feng.[…]
Chiaocheng county is one of 190,000 people, 180,000 of whom work on agriculture.

[1978 December, Rewi Alley, “Shansi 1978”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVII, number 12, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

Fanjiazhuang, Jiaocheng
In the summer of 1957, a group of paleoanthropologists on field investigation found a number of paleolithic stone artifacts at Fanjiazhuang Village northwest of Jiaocheng county in Shanxi Province.

1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 79:

Residents had on January 27 erected the bronze statue of Hua, Mao Zedong’s hand-picked successor who led the party from 1976 to 1981, at a square outside Hua’s cemetery in Jiaocheng county.

2016 February 18, Li Jing, “Save Our Statue: dramatic protest in China to save ex-leader Hua Guofeng’s figure from being demolished”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 2016-02-19, Policies & Politics:


Anze

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 安澤／安泽.

[…]success in controlling the big joints disease in An-tse County to the PLA medical teams and to Chairman Mao's revolutionary line on health work.

[1971, “Local Disease Controlled in An-tse County, Shansi”, in Translations on People's Republic of China, Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC:

The most spectacular change is the increase of rainfall in some areas, reaching an average annual of 100-120 mm. Linfen prefecture and Anze county in Shanxi have the most rainfall in the entire region because the afforested area has increased from the pre-Liberation coverage of 3.8 percent to 18 percent of their land area.

1982 November 18 [1982 June 14], He Guang [4421 0342] [禾光], “How Afforestation Has Changed Gansu's Climate”, in Worldwide Report: Environmental Quality, number 377, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Lanzhou GANSU RIBAO p 4, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 121:

Firemen extinguish the fire during an explosion at a liquefied petroleum gas station in Anze county of Linfen, north China's Shanxi province November 28, 2006.

2009 March 31, Rujun Shen, “Wanted: Mayor for accident-prone China coal city”, in Lucy Hornby, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-06-23, Lifestyle:


Qishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 岐山 (Qíshān).

In one village in Chi-shan county . . . the village chief bought his son a wife with money be got by selling a cow and two huts.

[1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 211:

In 1977 a large body of fragments of Chou dynasty oracle bone inscriptions was discovered at Chi-shan county in Shensi province.

[1985, Benjamin I. Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China, Belknap Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 424-425:

The Mao Kung Ting was unearthed in Chi Shan County, Shensi Province around 1848. Chi Shan, located 75 miles west of Sian, is also located forty-five miles beyond the site of the famous 1974 discovery of the army of 6,000 clay figures which guarded the grave of Emperor Chʻin Shih Huang Ti.

[1989, Edward Seu Chen Mau, “The Past as Prologue”, in The Mau Lineage, Honolulu: Hawaii Chinese History Center, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

Throughout Chinese history, Qishan county in Shaanxi province has been known as the ancestral homeland of the Zhou 周 people. In reality, the actual site of the Zhou homeland, known as the Zhouyuan 周原 (Plain of Zhou), includes only the eastern edge of Qishan county, where it meets Fufeng county (fig. 12-1).

2004, Edward L. Shaughnessy, “Western Zhou Hoard and Family Histories in the Zhouyuan”, in Xiaoneng Yang, editor, New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 255:

A quilt factory in Shaanxi's Qishan county was caught using juvenile workers who were forced to work 12 hours a day without pay for nearly six months.

2007 July 8, “Unpaid boys working in harsh conditions at Shaanxi factory”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-19:


Pingshun

There stood a man with two horses. His story was that he had been sent by his master, who was none other than the magistrate of Pingshun County, the night before and had traveled all night over the mountains to come and get us to go and take care of the magistrate’s wife who had been in labor, unable to deliver, for two whole days.[...]
The fact is that we had been hoping and praying for some months that our missionaries might find an opening into the County of Pingshun, about thirty-five miles to the east of Luan in Shansi, province of North China.

1945, Paul E. Adolph, “A Magistrate Calls the Doctor”, in Surgery Speaks to China: The Experiences of a Medical Missionary to China in Peace and in War, China Inland Mission, →OCLC, page 13:

Liu Pin-yen was named as the number one rightist on the China Youth Daily and in 1958 he was sent to Pingshun County in Shansi Province for labor reform.

1989, Issues & Studies, volume 25, numbers 7-12, Institute of International Relations, ROC (中華民國國際關係研究所), →ISSN, →OCLC, page 125:


Hongtong

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 洪洞 (Hóngtóng).

The Wang Family Register now records the names of eighteen generations of the descendants of Wang Erlao, our founding ancestor. Wang Erlao came to this area from Hongtong County in Shanxi Province several hundred years ago.

1996, Peter J. Seybolt, “Houhua Village Under New Leadership, 1984-1990”, in Throwing the Emperor from His Horse: Portrait of a Village Leader in China, 1923-1995, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115:

Hongtong County's welfare entrepreneurs
Hongtong County, located within Linfen City, is part of one of the most economically dynamic prefectures in Shanxi Province and presents some good examples of emergent welfare entrepreneurialism.

2008, David S. G. Goodman, editor, The New Rich in China: Future Rulers, Present Lives, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 106:

Shanxi provincial department of environmental protection, along with the government of Linfen City, which administers Hongtong County, has sent a team of investigators to the county to look for possible malpractice, the department said.

2018 April 19, “Environment watchdog follows up chemical waste TV exposure”, in Mu Xuequan, editor, Xinhua News Agency:

Yao and Shun's Stories in Hongtong
County, Shanxi Province
Shanxi, one of China's northern provinces, is renowned for its long history, old temples, and rich coal resources. Hongtong is a county in the prefecture-level city of Linfen, in the southwestern part of the province. Currently, Hongtong is the most populated county in the city of Linfen, occupying an area of 1,563 square kilometers, with a population of 733,421 in 2010.² It has nine towns (zhen 镇) and seven townships (xiang 乡), including 463 villagers' committees that govern 902 natural villages (Zhang and Wang et al. 2005). Hongtong is well-known for its former status as an immigration transfer center during the Ming dynasty.

2019, Lijun Zhang, Ziying You, editors, Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126:

Hongtong
National Imagery and Mapping Agency


Pingyao

IN the Province of Xanſi, near to Pingiao, is a great Fall of Water, which makes ſuch a noiſe, that it is heard ſome miles diſtant.

[1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, page 236:

The Japanese plans called for the occupation of Taiyüan by October 30th, and then they were to move southward along the Tungpu railway and occupy the whole province. They occupied Taiyüan on November 9th and occupied a few towns south and east of the city, including Pingyao. Their conduct in Pingyao was typical of their activities everywhere; they entered the city, beat in the doors with their rifles, entered and searched for money, valuables, food—and women. They looted the entire city—though most of the population had fled—and they raped and then carried off the young women for the use of their troops in Taiyüan. This story is told me by a foreigner who witnessed these scenes.
But soon the Japanese began to retreat from Pingyao and from the other places they had occupied around Taiyüan.

1938, Agnes Smedley, China Fights Back: An American Woman With the Eighth Route Army, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, →OCLC, page 236:

In a raid conducted upon all British missions in Taiyuan and Pingyao, in Shansi, on July 10, the provincial police arrested 59 members of what they called the China Self-Sacrificing Salvation League, the “Asahi Shimbun” reported.

1939 August 16, “Japanese Arrest Two Canadians”, in North-China Herald, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 268, column 1:

A gas explosion inside a coal mine in northern China has killed 15 miners and left another nine injured, authorities said Tuesday.
The blast occurred Monday afternoon at a mine operated by the local Feng Yan Group in Shanxi province’s Pingyao county. Rescue work was halted early Tuesday morning after everyone was accounted for.

2019 November 19, “15 killed, 9 injured in northern China coal mine explosion”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-07:

In addition to the mine closures, the floods disrupted rail service on several lines in Shanxi Province and caused part of the ancient city wall of Pingyao, one of China’s best-preserved medieval towns, to collapse.

2021 October 12, Amy Qin, Amy Chang Chien, “As Floods Ravage China, 13 Die After Bus Falls Off Bridge”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-10-12:


Daning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 大寧／大宁.

As in the whole country, cadres and poor and lower-middle peasants in our Taning County, inspired by the spirit of the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, were greatly stimulated and high in spirits and resolved to fight hard in the movement of learning from Tachai in agriculture and building Tachai-type counties everywhere.
In the face of the excellent situation, the anti-party clique of the "gang of four,"--Wang, Chang, Chiang and Yao--stepped up their antiparty activities and strengthend their attacks on the party.[…]
Under the influence of their incorrect line, some cadres in our Taning County had the feeling of "It is safe to grasp revolution, it is dangerous to grasp production," with the result that class enemies seized the chance to make trouble, capitalism and anarchism ran rampant, production on some communes and brigades developed slowly and little transformation occurred.

[1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original by Taning County CCP Committee (in Mandarin), →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4:

Recently published inscriptions about earthquakes in Shanxi provide the statistical information, which proves reliable when we compare the different records.[…]An inscription from Daning county describes a similar toll: 175,800 people in Pingyang circuit died.

2018, Jinping Wang, “Clergy, Irrigation Associations, and the Rural Socioeconomic Order”, in In the Wake of the Mongols, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 166:


Xiangning

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 鄉寧／乡宁.

3. The masses are fully determined and full of vigor. For instance, 87 percent of Hsiangning County's labor force is engaged in farmland capital construction.

[1974 December 13 [1974 November 23], “Shansi Province Presses Farmland Capital Construction”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 3:

This newly discovered oil producing tree is distributed in natural secondary forests in Hsiang-ning County of the southern end of Lu-liang-shan Mountains and I-ch'eng County of the northern part of Chung-t'iao-shan Mountains in Shansi Province.

[1978 July 21, People's Republic of China Scientific Abstracts, number 194, United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 32:

The founder of the sunrame^([sic – meaning surname]) E was the Marquise of E (E hou 鄂侯) originally from the State of Chin 晉. E was later adopted as a common surname by his descendants and the family settled in Hsiang-ning hsien 鄉寧縣, Shan-hsi 山西 province.

[2000, Sheau-yueh J. (趙賀筱岳) Chao, “Genealogy of Chinese Surnames”, in 尋根溯源中國人的姓氏 [In Search of Your Asian Roots: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames], Clearfield Company, Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:

The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.

2019 March 16, “North China landslide knocks over homes, killing 7”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2023-06-26:


Heyang

The most direct road from Hanch'eng to Hsian lies through the cities of T'ungchou Fu and Weinan Hsien across the plains along the Yellow River, but we followed a slightly longer route further north across the loess uplands via Hoyang, Ch'engch'eng, P'uch'eng, Fup'ing, and Sanyuan, a week's journey by a good and mostly level trail.[…]
Hoyang is a fairly large city, the centre of a first class district; but it is a poor-looking place inside, like most of these purely agricultural prairie towns, and is not to be compared with Hanch'eng, which probably does a good deal of trade with prosperous Shansi.

[1921, Eric Teichman, Travels of a Consular Officer in North-West China, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →OCLC, pages 79–80:

As a result, some 1,000 activists in reading Chairman Mao's works have emerged in Hoyang County, Shensi Province.

[1966 January 26 [1966 January 19], “Local Areas Improve War Veterans' Treatment”, in Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 18, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page CCC 4:

Heyang county was selected as the project site because of its representative qualities.[...]Weinan 渭南 municipality, in which Heyang county is situated, is the most densely populated of the province's lower-level and mainly agricultural municipalities.

2011, Gender in Flux: Agency and Its Limits in Contemporary China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 59:

Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network :
* Says it signs strategic cooperation agreement with Heyang County govt

2016 May 17 [2016 May 18], “BRIEF-Shaanxi Broadcast & TV Network signs strategic cooperation agreement with Heyang govt”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:


Fenxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 汾西.

My grandmother did not hear from her beloved daughters again for a long time. Their communications stopped when the Japanese attacked Zhaocheng in April 1938 and their formation had to retreat to Fenxi county, in the Lüliang mountains.

2000, Aiping Mu, Vermilion Gate, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 81:

Fenxi County, located in the north of Pingyang prefecture in the mountainous region to the west of the Fen River, suffered even greater losses from the famine. Fenxi was a poor county, indicated not least by the poor quality of its gazetteer.

2009, Andrea Janku, “"Heaven-Sent Disasters" in Late Imperial China: The Scope of the State and Beyond”, in Christof Mauch, Christian Pfister, editors, Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History, Lexington Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 245:

Police in the city of Linfen in northern Shanxi province have identified the boy’s aunt Zhang Huiying as a suspect because the boy’s blood was found on her clothes, the official Xinhua News Agency said.[…]
One of the case investigators reached by phone, a police officer in Fenxi county surnamed Liu, referred only to the Xinhua report and refused to answer further questions, saying he was not authorized to speak to the media. Calls to the city and county’s police bureaus’ propaganda departments rang unanswered.

2013 September 4, Gillian Wong, “China police say aunt likely gouged out boy’s eyes”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-06-02:


Huguan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 壺關／壶关 (Húguān).

Methods of selecting only the best men have been worked out. Not everyone who wants to join the army is accepted by any means.[…]
In Hukuan County in southern Shansi, only 1,400 men were approved out of 2,101 who wanted to go.

[1956, “Recruiting in Communist China”, in Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 273:

The Hukuan County CCP Committee has seriously implemented the instructions of Chairman Hua and the party Central Committee, carried forward the party's traditions and work style and actively rectified fiscal and economic discipline.

[1978 February 21 [1978 February 15], “County in Shansi Improves Fiscal Economic Discipline”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 35, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 2:

THE dense forests and deep ravines of the Taihang Moutnaisn once made southeastern Shanxi province one of China's more backward areas in transportation.[...]A commune in Huguan county once went in for collecting mountain products such as fruit and medicinal herbs, in the hope that they could be got out, but because of insufficient transport a thousand tons of them rotted one year.

1982 September, Haiqing Zhang, “Better Transport Livens Up a Mountain Area”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXI, number 9, →OCLC, page 43:

When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).

2008, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:

Born in Huguan County in Shanxi, Xia Fangzhou graduated from the Art Department of Inner Mongolia Normal University in 1964 and worked for museums and newspapers for many years.

2008, “Jia Fangzhou”, in Zhu Wei's Album of Ink Painting [朱伟水墨册页1988—2008], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 509, column 1:


Quwo

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 曲沃 (Qūwò).

It was a whole day's journey from I-ch'eng to Chü-wo which, in turn, is about 60 li east of Chiang Chou — one of the most important cities in southern Shansi and a center for curio-dealers. At this city, the Fêng River turns westward. While we were in Chü-wo, we decided to pay a visit to Chiang Chou to have a look at the various curio ships in that city.[...]Having gone to Chiang Chou from Chü-wo by the northern route through Hou-ma, we returned over a bypath through mountains in the south which has been gradually elevated from the Fêng River valley by loess deposit.[...]After we returned to Chü-wo, our next trip was to dash across Chung-t'iao-shan.

[1927, Chi Li, “Archaeological Survey of the Fêng River Valley, Southern Shansi, China”, in Explorations and Field-work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1926 (Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections), volume 78, number 7, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, pages 129–130:

The site producing the paleolithic stone artifacts at Xigou, Licun Village, Quwo County, Shanxi Province was discovered and trial-excavated in 1956.

1980, Atlas of Primitive Man in China, Beijing: Science Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 81:

In 1979, while we were conducting our archaeological work in Yucheng and Quwo, Shanxi province, I noticed another historical record in the Kuodizhi (a comprehensive account of geography written in 641), which stated that "the ancient city of Tang was 20 li west of Yuchengxian in Jiangzhou."

1999 [1994], 邹衡 [Zou Heng], “The Early Jin State Capital Discovered: a Personal Account”, in Roderick Whitfield, Wang Tao, transl., Exploring China's Past: New Discoveries and Studies in Archaeology and Art, Saffron Books, Eastern Art Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106:

More than 100 pastors, co-workers and representatives of believers of the Christian Church in Quwo County gathered to bid farewell to the female believer Liu Chang’e who was born on April 17, 1926 in Shizidao Village, Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province and was called to heaven at 9:35 a.m. on June 9, 2022, at the age of 97.

2022 June 22, Xiaohua Zhang, “Believers Bid Farewell to 97-Y-O Christian Who Was Spiritual Mother of Many”, in China Christian Daily, archived from the original on 2022-07-19:


Zhangzi

/d͡ʒɑŋˈd͡ʒiː/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 長子／长子 (Zhǎngzǐ).

Commander Li further charged that the son of the biggest landlord in Licheng County had headed the 7,000-man work team in Changtzu.[...]Be that as it may, Li spread the thesis that, as soon as Liu Shao-ch'i issued his abysmal ten points, the "agents" in the Region gathered together 7,000 cadres and sent them to Changtzu County to carry out a line "left in form, right in essence."

[1983, William Hinton, “A Zigzag Road”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 361, 362:

There was a warm response to Chao's directive on the establishment of a personal responsibility system in government organizations. However, each government organization goes its own way in implementing the system, as can be seen from the following extract from a People's Daily report on the situation in Changtzu County, Shansi:
Beginning from the end of 1980, each unit in the Changtzu County, Shansi, implemented the personal responsibility system and the floating wage system.

[1985, Yuen Chen, Perspectives on Development in Mainland China, Westview Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 164:

The Chongqing Temple in Zhangzi County, Shanxi Province, holds a set of late 11th-century clay sculptures of high quality.

1996, The Dictionary of Art, volume 6, Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 717:

A PROCESSION ON THE BIRTHDAY OF THE SANZONG GOD
This is a description of an unusually elaborate procession that was performed as recently as the late 1930s. It was centered on the Sanzong Temple in the Big West Gate quarter of the county capital of Zhangzi, in the southeastern Shanxi province. The account was written by a native of Zhangzi County who spent many years collecting information from local residents about their temple festivals.

2000, Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd edition, volume II, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 76:

In Shanxi, the county procurator of Zhangzi County and local banking officials repeatedly blocked the transfer of funds to a Shandong-based enterprise after courts in Shandong ruled against the Shanxi-based defendant.

2003, Andrew H. Wedeman, “Import Protectionism”, in From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 167:

More than 5,300 square meters of dragon fruit have entered the bloom season in Xihan Village in Zhangzi County, northern China's Shanxi Province.

2021 July 28, “Time-lapse video shows how dragon fruit blossoms in N China”, in CGTN, archived from the original on 2021-08-02:


隰縣

/ɕi³⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

/ɕi³⁵ ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹/

Xi County, Xixian (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)


Xiyang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 昔陽／昔阳.

In September last year, under the earnest concern of Chairman Mao and the party Central Committee, Comrade Hua Kuo-feng delivered at the National Conference on Learning From Tachai in Agriculture, held in Hsiyang County in our province, a summary report, "The Whole Party Must Get Mobilized To Make Ever Greater Efforts To Develop Agriculture and Struggle To Build Tachai-Type Counties Everywhere."

[1976 November 5 [1976 November 2], Taning County CCP Committee, “The 'Gang of Four' Sabotaged the Campaign to Learn From Tachai in Agriculture in a Vain Attempt to Restore Capitalism”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page K 4:

After an initial stay of five days in Beijing, I was scheduled to visit Dazhai Production Brigade in Xiyang County of Shanxi Province.

1979, Govind Kelkar, “Learning From Dazhai”, in China After Mao: A Report on Socialist Development, New Delhi: USHA Publications, →OCLC, page 12:

As national models, Dazhai and Xiyang reached the zenith of their prominence in the period after the two national conferences on building Dazhai-type counties held in September 1975 and December 1976.
Chen Yonggui, the Party secretary of Dazhai Village since 1952 or 1953, had been the most powerful figure in Xiyang since 1967 in his capacity as the chairman of the Xiyang Revolutionary Committee and a member of a Party core group.

1982, “National Agricultural Policy: The Dazhai Model and Local Change in the Post-Mao Era”, in The Transition to Socialism in China, M.E. Sharpe, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 267:

The village of about 100 households and 500 people in the poor and remote Xiyang county of Shanxi province was an important agricultural model under Mao Zedong.

1994 September 18, “Dazhai brought in from the cold”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-07:


Wenxi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 聞喜／闻喜.

I arrived at the P’ei village in Wen-hsi county. I paid my respects at the shrine to the Duke of Chin (i.e. P’ei Tu, 764-839) and inquired after his descendants. There were still one or two hundred men who left their plowing to come and pay their respects together.

[1973, Denis Twitchett, quoting Ku Yen-wu, “The Composition of the T’ang Ruling Class: New Evidence from Tunhuang”, in Arthur F. Wright, Denis Twitchett, editors, Perspectives on the T’ang (Asian Studies), Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 52:

Li Haicang was the richest and most powerful man around. His company, Haixin Steel, accounts for two-thirds of the economic activity in Wenxi, a county of 340,000 people. Mr. Li paid wages, bought land, built roads and schools and, when people were unhappy, took blame.[…]
Wenxi County and the nearby city of Yuncheng have dispatched experts to figure out how to run Haixin, which was closely held by Mr. Li, his family and his business partners.

2003 February 1, Joseph Kahn, “In China, Quick Rise And Death Of a Tycoon”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-27, World:


Ruicheng

/ˌɹweɪˈt͡ʃʌŋ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 芮城.

9. Yongle Temple (Shanxi Province)
This temple located in Ruicheng County, in the southwestern corner of Shanxi Province, was originally situated on the banks of the Huanghe River in Yongle, a town bearing the same name as the temple.

1993, Foster Stockwell, “Visitor's Guide to Taoist Sites”, in 中国宗教概览 [Religion in China Today], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 80:

A solar panel installation is seen in Ruicheng County in central China’s Shanxi Province.

2019 December 9, John Kerry, Ro Khanna, “Don’t Let China Win the Green Race”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-09, Opinion:


Wanrong

According to the statistics of Wanjung County, of the 34,000 people who had received instruction in reading by October 1958, one-third had again become illiterate, and the other two-thirds were unable even to read newspapers.

[1966, George P. Jan, “Mass Education in the Chinese Communes”, in George P. Jan, editor, Government of Communist China, San Francisco, Cali.: Chandler Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 511:

Also in November, in Wanrong County, Shanxi Province, in central China, two policemen were killed when enraged construction workers attacked a police station after a traffic dispute.

2004 December 31, Joseph Kahn, “China's 'Haves' Stir the 'Have Nots' to Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-05-27, Asia Pacific:


Yuanqu

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 垣曲.

In the fluvial deposits which have developed to the west of the village of T'ungeshanchen in Yuanchu County of Shenhsi^([sic – meaning Shanhsi]) Province, one can find the Nihewan fauna (Axis rugosus, etc.).

[1963 June 24, Chung-chien Yang, “Questions of Neotectonics in the Northern Foothills of the Ch'inling”, in V. N. Pavlinov, editor, Works of the First Conference on Neotectonics in China, →OCLC, page 123:

Rescuers prepare to rescue villagers who are stranded in a flooding river in Yuanqu county, north China's Shanxi province July 30, 2007.

2007 July 31, “China floods put Three Gorges Dam to the test”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, Technology:

After a 10-year fight for compensation, a Hong Kong businessman who says he is owed millions after his company was hijacked by officials in Yuanqu county, Shanxi, has received less than a third of his investment back.

2009 September 13, “HK businessman gets partial payout after 10-year fight over hijacking of Shanxi firm”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-02:


Zezhou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 澤州／泽州 (Zézhōu).

The Qinglian Temple is on the side of Xiashi Mountain in Zezhou County, Jincheng, Shanxi Province.

2010, Zhao Wenbing [肇文兵], “Integration of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism”, in Wang Wenliang [王文亮], Kang Jian [康健], Han Huizhi [韩慧枝], Xiao Ying [肖颖], transl., Chinese Sculpting: History Through Centuries of Sculpting [中国雕塑], China Intercontinental Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 94:

Zhai Meng, who ran a Liren library in Zezhou County, Shanxi Province, said officials from the local cultural affairs department conducted two inspections of the library in August, both “appearing to be targeting foreign publications.”

2014 September 22, Vanessa Piao, “Rural Library Chain Closes, Citing ‘Tremendous Pressure’”, in New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-02, Sinophere:

At the same time, fengshui has also been taken into consideration in terms of spacial environment. For example, Zhou Village in Zezhou County faces Xiaonanling Mountain in the south, and lies on Huangshaling Mountain, with other mountain and hills on its left and right, forming a relatively enclosed space.

2021, Traditional Chinese Villages: Beautiful Nostalgia, Springer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 245:


Qinshui

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沁水.

Chao Shu-li was a native of Chinshui County, Shansi Province.

[1959, Ting Yi, “Literature in the Liberated Areas of the Path of Socialist Realism”, in A Short History of Modern Chinese Literature, Kennikat Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 254:

The PEOPLE'S DAILY today frontpages a report introducing the experience of Chinshui county, Shansi, in developing diversified economy.[…]
Chinshui county is a hilly region with favorable conditions for developing a diversified economy.

[1965 August 3 [1965 July 19], “Not Only for 'Pocket Money'”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, volume I, number 148, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page CCC 1:

Li Shih-chün had connections with the judicial section of the puppet hsien government in Ch'in-shui. A few days later, the judicial section of the hsien government dispatched a runner to Wang-chai Village to summon Hsü Yin-yüan to appear before the court in Ch’in-shui.

[1976, “A Cave with Two Entrances”, in Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang, White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:

First-phase liquefaction and storage facilities are in Qinshui county, Shanxi province while the second phase is in nearby Yangcheng county.

2008 April 21, Eric Ng, “China Leason budgets 200m yuan to expand gas liquefaction”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-19:


Yangcheng

The Mandarin of Yangcheng was a powerful figure. In that part of mountainous southern Shansi, the principal city was Tsechow. Several days' journey away, circling out from the capital, were the four smaller sister cities: Yangcheng, Chin Shui, Kaoping and Lingchuang, tiny walled citadels nestling among the high mountains. The Mandarin of Yangcheng ruled his city and district by decree from the governor and war lord at Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi far to the north. The government at Taiyuan owed nominal allegiance to the Nationalists. Yangcheng lay deep in the mountains.

1957, Alan Burgess, chapter 6, in 小婦人 [The Small Woman], New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., →OCLC, page 76:

A year after I had left Southeast Shansi, trying to keep track of my friends there, I learned that the young hsien chang of Yangcheng, the one who had majored in government, had been purged—but by whom, or which group, or for what cause, I never found out.

1978, Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Jonathan Cape, published 1979, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 100:

A statement from Yangcheng County in Shanxi province said the carbon disulfide leak occurred Saturday morning at a plant belonging to the Ruixing chemical company.

2015 May 16, “Chemical leak in northern China kills 8, injures 2”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-07-16:


Lingchuan

A man from Lingchuan county near Guilin has been arrested for allegedly posing as an employee at the state power company and stealing electricity meters from more than 80 homes, the Guilin Evening News reports.

2014 October 20, “Teen invents cheap 3D printer; ‘drunks’ in police car that sped from scene”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, China Insider:


Jishan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 稷山 (Jìshān).

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], Xiaobo Liu, “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 2022-01-03, China:


Taiqian

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 台前.

In Henan, out-of-plan cotton mills set up illegal purchasing stations in Taiqian County, bid up prices, and fought with official stations for farmers’ crops.

2003, Andrew H. Wedeman, “Export Protectionism”, in From Mao to Market: Rent Seeking, Local Protectionism, and Marketization in China, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:

Six people were killed and six injured in three detonator blast accidents in a central Chinese province, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
The first accident happened on Sunday when villagers in Taiqian county, Henan province, were making detonators in a residential building.

2007 July 17, “Six killed in three China detonator blasts”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-18, Latest Crisis:

Taiqian county in Henan province has issued guidelines saying grooms should pay no more than 60,000 yuan (HK$67,000) as a “bride price”, the Chinese tradition that a male partner offers money to his fiancée’s family to secure their marriage.

2017 January 4, Liu Zhen, “Don’t pay over 60,000 yuan for a bride, say Chinese officials”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-01-05, China:


Qingfeng

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 清豐／清丰.

頓邱 A district belonging to the Wei State 衛國. It was located about 25 li southwest of what is now Ch’ing-fêng-hsien 清豐縣 Hopei.

[1934, “The Travels of Emperor Mu”, in Chêng Tê-k’un, transl., Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year 1934, volume LXV, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, →OCLC, page 135:

Two men have been detained in Qingfeng county, Puyang , for allegedly using nude photos and sex videos to blackmail dozens of prostitutes,[…]

2013 February 1, “China Digest, February 1, 2013”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20, China:

The youngsters, aged seven and nine, had gone with their mother Li Xiaoli at the end of last month to visit a man-made lake near the village of Xizhaolou in Qingfeng county, in central China's Henan province.

2015 March 5, Corey Charlton, “Begging for forgiveness, woman whose daughters were saved by student who drowned as he pulled them from a lake... only for the mother to tell her girls to LIE about his death in case she was blamed”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2015-04-20:


Yongji

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 永吉 (Yǒngjí).

China's Premier Wen Jiabao waves to locals during his visit to the flood-hit Kouqian town of Yongji county, Jilin province August 3, 2010.

2010 August 4, Ben Blanchard, “China says waters on North Korean border surge”, in Miral Fahmy, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-05-14, ENVIRONMENT:


Neihuang

The tenants of Qiankou village in Henan’s Neihuang county, for example, traditionally entreated their landlords in land-rent matters, but their entreatment was articulated out of the expectation that the landlord ought to live up to his obligation to make land available, share the crop on an equitable basis, and reduce the rent after a meager harvest.

1983, Ralph Thaxton, China Turned Rightside Up: Revolutionary Legitimacy in the Peasant World, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

Shen Ch’uan-ch’i (656-715) was from Neihuang in Honan province and served at the court of Empress Wu.

2003, Red Pine, transl., Poems of the Masters, Copper Canyon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 185:

State-run China Central Television said Zhou was involved in a neighborhood dispute but did not provide details. It said Zhou fled his home in Neihuang county Sunday after allegedly injuring three people.

2013 August 20, “3 killed in central China bus stabbings”, in AP News, archived from the original on 2022-09-08:


Jinzhai

/d͡ʒɪnˈd͡ʒaɪ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 金寨 (Jīnzhài).

He was born in 1913 in Jinzhai county, Anhui province and joined the communist party in 1929 at the age of only 16.

1989, “Hong Xuezhi”, in China in Crisis: The Role of the Military, Jane's Information Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 73:


Tangyin

zh-l

湯陰／汤阴 (Tāngyīn)

In Anyang we first went south to Tangyin county, which is the birth place of Yo Fei, the Sung dynasty people’s hero. In the temple dedicated to him there, effigies of the traitors who betrayed him are cast in iron and are an to kneel in front of his great image. Members of his family have looked after this temple for generations and one of its most ewe possessions is a long scroll in his handwriting.

1965 April, Rewi Alley, “From Taipeh Shan to Taihang Shan”, in Eastern Horizon, volume IV, number 4, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

Second, the oracle bones eventually led to the archaeological site at An-yang and to its scientific excavation. When the inscribed oracle bones first came on the market, the merchants maintained that they came from both T'ang-yin 湯陰 and An-yang in Honan.

[1980, Kwang-chih Chang, “Prolegomena: Five Doors to Shang”, in Shang Civilization, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

The rotting carcasses of dead animals easily produce pathogens, but disinfection material is insufficient, the semi-official China Animal Agriculture Association said on its website, after the farms in Tangyin county were flooded.

2021 July 27, Hallie Gu Gu, Shivani Singh, “Flood-hit Chinese county needs disinfectants to tackle dead livestock”, in Clarence Fernandez, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2021-07-27, China:


Weishi

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 尉氏.

Similarly, Weishi county, also in eastern Henan, has 90,000 mou of such plantations, all sources of useful income in the several communes where they are located.

1985, Frank Leeming, Rural China Today, Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 96:

The crash occurred in Weishi county, Henan province, on a newly upgraded road that had not been opened, witnesses were quoted as saying.

2018 June 21, Jiaquan Zhou, “‘Drunk driver’ arrested after four children killed in car crash in China”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-21, Society:


Shangshui

In Shangshui county of Honan Province during a period of three months in 1950, 90 women were driven to death by family mistreatment.

1959 [1951 October], C. K. Yang, quoting Preparatory Committee of the Democratic Women's League of the Central-South Region, “The Ascendancy of the Status of Women in the Family”, in The Chinese Family in the Communist Revolution, M.I.T. Press, published 1972, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 108:

Police in Shangshui county near Zhoukou are investigating whether straw burning in a field led to a car exploding, Xinhua reports.

2014 October 20, “Teen invents cheap 3D printer; ‘drunks’ in police car that sped from scene”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-10-21, China Insider:


Ningling

Honan Province -- Kaifeng, Shangchiu, and Ningling counties of Kaifeng Special District are abolished. The administrative area of[...] the former Ningling county is transferred to Chu (7168) County.

1960, Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts, numbers 166-170, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC, page 9:

In 2006, after his son died, Mr Zhou attempted to sue the hospital, but the court wouldn’t take up his case. In Ningling county, in Henan, over 100 people were recently found to have been infected via blood transfusion.

2012, Hsiao-Hung Pai, “Dust and Heat: Black Mines in the Yellow River Region”, in Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants, Verso Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 101:

For example, a court in Ningling county, Henan province, ruled in September that a man surnamed Song, who worked for a disease prevention and control centre in Suixian county, had accepted bribes of more than 1 million yuan (S$200,000) from several vaccine makers or agencies since July 2011, including 124,680 yuan from Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology.

2018 July 24, “Chinese pharmaceutical firm embroiled in vaccine scandal involved in several bribery cases, records show”, in The Straits Times, archived from the original on 2018-07-24:


Luyi

The region was hit by a rainstorm at the time when the wheat was milking, and daily rainfall exceeded 200 milimetres in many communes and production brigades in the worst afflicted Luyi County. The Luyi County party committee led the commune members in draining the fields in the midst of heavy rain, thus freeing them from inundation.

1974, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

In 2003, the court of Luyi County in Henan Province issued its verdict in a lawsuit involving AIDS infection by blood transfusion, ruling that the defendant, the clinic of Xinji Town in Luyi County pay the plaintiff a total of 400,000 yuan in compensation for psychological trauma and to cover expenses for continuing treatment, pay the plaintiff’s elder daughter a total of 110,000 yuan as compensation for psychological trauma and living expenses, and pay the plaintiff’s wife and second daughter a total of 30,000 yuan for medical fees, compensation for bereavement and funeral costs.

2004, Guomei (夏国美) Xia, HIV/AIDS in China (艾滋病在中国）, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 154:

The director of the federation’s Luyi County office, Guo Yanfang, said the organization has been spreading the word about the new anti-domestic violence law and encouraging survivors to seek help.

2016 May 2, Emily Rauhala, Gu Jinglu, “Domestic abuse is thriving in China’s culture of silence”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 2016-05-03:


Nanle

南樂／南乐 (Nánlè)

In 1993, the district government’s unreasonable grain tax incited a collective tax refusal by the peasant inhabitants of Jing Degu village in Jing Degu district in Nanle county (Henan province).

1997, Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr., “Everyday Forms of Resistance”, in Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, Garland Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 175:

In another case in Nanle County of Henan, the authorities arrested the leader of the Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee and several coworkers. This Christian leader in the officially sanctioned church had engaged in a series of weiquan activities.

2016, Fenggang Yang, “The Growth and Dynamism of Chinese Christianity”, in Christianity and Freedom, volume II, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181:

Meanwhile, the Weiquanwang rights website reported growing fears for the health of Henan Protestant pastor Zhang Shaojie, who is halfway through a 12-year jail term for "gathering a crowd to disrupt public order" after his church ran afoul of authorities in Henan's Nanle county.[...]
After officials seized control of Zhang's state-sanctioned church in 2013, sealing it off from the congregation, hundreds of Protestant worshipers from Shenzhen, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, and Beijing converged on Nanle county over Christmas to show support for the church, which was a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Three-Self Patriotic Association of Protestant churches.

2019 December 23, Gao Feng, Wang Yun, “Beijing Denies Report of 'Forced Labor' Hidden in Christmas Card Made in China”, in Luisetta Mudie, transl., edited by Luisetta Mudie, Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on 2019-12-23:


Shucheng

In November they annihilated 6,000 crack troops of the Hunan army at Sanhe Town, Shucheng, Anhui Province, and forced the Qing troops, who were besieging Anqing, to flee.

1982, Bai Shouyi (白寿彝), editor, 中国通史纲要 [An Outline History of China] (China Knowledge Series), Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, page 450:

Gao Dao-pang, my father, was born on 9 February 1906 into the rich, landowning Gao family of Shucheng County in Anhui Province.

2000, Anhua Gao, “My Parents”, in To the Edge of the Sky: A Story of Love, Betrayal, Suffering, and the Strength of Human Courage, 1st edition, The Overlook Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1:

The company said a portion of the proceeds will be used to open new stores, renovate existing ones, construct a logistics facility in Manila and a commissary in Shucheng County in Anhui Province in China.

2011 April 12, “Philippines' Jollibee signs $90 miln of loan deals”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-08-24, Financials:


Xinxiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 新鄉／新乡 (Xīnxiāng).


Yucheng

In only eight months, a 143 m dam was built on the Tuhai River in Yucheng county to impound 50 million m3 of water and irrigate 500 000 mow.

1972, Geography, Geographical Association, →OCLC, page 224:

The provincial government has designated thirty-four counties in Henan as officially impoverished (pinkun xian) according to the provincial criterion: an average annual per capita income below 500 yuan and total household assets valued at less than 8,000 yuan, based on 1990 prices. Since foreigners are still prohibited from entering most such areas, I was able to visit only those that had already benefited from international and government-supported microfinance programs (discussed below), specifically Yucheng County in the east and Nanzhao County in the southwest of the province.

2002, Kellee S. Tsai, “Creative Capitalists in Henan”, in Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 185:

State-run media outlet CGTN reports the dust storm arrived in central Henan’s Yucheng County at around 3 p.m. local time on Sunday (March 31). Winds whipped a large bouncy castle and other inflatable paraphernalia into the air, leaving a trail of destruction at the scenic spot.

2019 April 1, Ryan Drillsma, “Dust devil kills two, injures 20 in China's Henan Province”, in Taiwan News, archived from the original on 2019-04-01, World:


金寨

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯⁵¹/

/kɐm⁵⁵ t͡saːi̯²²/

/t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂaɪ̯⁵¹/

/kɐm⁵⁵ t͡saːi̯²²/

(～縣) Jinzhai (a county of Lu'an, Anhui, China)


Minquan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 民權／民权 (Mínquán).

Under the pretext of commending the Little Red Guards of Hunagchuang^([sic – meaning Huangchuang]) brigade of Lungtang commune in Minchuan County, Honan, for their work in biological pest control, they went all out to trumpet the fallacy that "the children's corps can do big things too: and staged a deceptive and despicable show that reversed black and white.

[1978 May 10 [1978 May 5], “NCNA Correspondent: Gang Exploited Little Red Guards”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume 1, number 91, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 5:

In 1988, the following incident took place in Henan Province. In July, Jin Changfu, Party secretary of Chenya district of this Minquan County, heard that a peasant, Cai Fawang, sixty-three, had refused to hand in his grain. Last year, the grain production of most districts in Minquan County had dropped by 49 percent.

1989, Binyan (Liu Pin-yen) Liu, translated by Henry L. Epstein, "Tell the World": What Happened in China and Why, New York: Pantheon Books, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:

Raised in a Christian home in Henan Province, Mr. Xu was fond of noting his birth in a county called Minquan, which translates as “civil rights.”

2009 August 9, Andrew Jacobs, “Arrest in China Rattles Backers of Legal Rights”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-07-02, Asia Pacific:


Lankao

From Mandarin 蘭考／兰考 (Lánkǎo), Wade–Giles romanization: Lan²-kʻao³, reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.

IN 1962 Lankao county, which lies below a bend of the Yellow River in eastern Honan province, was hit by some of the worst natural calamities in its calamity-ridden history.

1966 May, Mu Ching, “County Party Secretary — Chiao Yu-lu”, in China Reconstructs, volume XV, number 5, →OCLC, page 6:

He apparently worked in urban areas until 1962, but during the economic depression following the Great Leap Forward, the forty-year-old Chiao Yu-lü was posted first to Weishih County and then to Lankao County in rural Honan as Party first secretary, the most important office in the county. He subsequently died of cancer of the liver, while serving in Lankao County.

1969, Michel Oksenberg, “Local Leaders in Rural China 1962-65: Individual Attributes, Bureaucratic Positions, and Political Recruitment”, in A. Doak Barnett, editor, Chinese Communist Politics in Action, University of Washington Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 160–161:

Lankao County in Honan
In the past, whenever the Yellow river flooded, which was often, it affected the area now occupied by Lankao county in northeast Honan.

1973, Rewi Alley, 中国见闻 [Travels in China, 1966-71], Peking: New World Press, →OCLC, page 6:

“The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little,” Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China’s Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said.
Each member of the ruling Communist Party’s elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said.

2014 March 18, “China's Xi urges officials to 'sweat' corruption out of system”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 2022-05-15, Emerging Markets:


Taikang

To the east of Chu-hsien Chen some scores of villages in Tʻung-hsü Hsien were covered with ten feet of water from a branch which afterwards followed the channel of the Chʻing-kang River and inundated Tʻai-kang and Lu-i Hsien.

[1887 November 24 [1887 November 9], A CORRESPONDENT, “THE YELLOW RIVER.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XXXIX, number 1060, Shanghai, sourced from Peking, →OCLC, page 563, column 1:

T'ien was a Shun-chih period chin-shih who received highest rating for his performance as magistrate of T'ai-k'ang county in Honan, and was subsequently appointed to a series of capital posts, including Vice Censor-in-chief, and Jr. Vice Minister of Works.

[1985, Thomas Carl Bartlett, Ku Yen-wu's Response to "the Demise of Human Society", Princeton University, →OCLC, page 83:

The Communist army in Huaiyang, for instance, worked out a defense agreement with a village pact in neighboring Taikang county to jointly protect themselves against puppet troops and local bandits.

1994, Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201:

Anthropologists in central China are carefully preserving the mummies of a couple accidentally found in a tomb that is believed to date back some 500 years, mainland media reported.
The tomb was unearthed in Taikang county in Zhoukou, Henan province by a construction crew that was installing plumbing, the Dahe Daily reported.

2017 March 27, Laura Zhou, “Construction crew in China unearths tomb with 500-year-old mummies”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-03-27, Around the Nation:


Long'an

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 隆安 (Lóng'ān).

The crash happened at 10am when the bus, apparently swerving to avoid a cyclist, plunged down a cliff in Pingshan village, Long'an county, about 70km west of Nanning. It was on its way to the De Tian Waterfall on the China-Vietnam border.

2002 February 15, “Mainland to complete crash probe in three weeks”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-09-18:


Huojia

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 獲嘉／获嘉.

At the time of the poet’s birth, his father Li Ssu was serving as magistrate of Huo-chia district (in modern Honan).

[1969, James J. Y. Liu, “Biographical Sketch”, in The Poetry of Li Shang-yin, Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 14:

[…]of the Kangtsun Commune in Huochia County in the central province of Honan have launched an upsurge in spring cultivation work and preparations for spring farming.

[1969, Hsinhua Selected News Items, numbers 1-26, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 1:

Still others sternly criticize the inspection team of the Hsinhsiang Prefectural CCP Committee and the Huochia County CCP Committee for its attempt to cover up Comrade Liu Wen-hao. Comrade Ma Ming-hsi, secretary of the Huochia County CCP Committee and former leader of the Hsinhsiang Prefectural CCP Committee's work team stationed in Huochia County, also sent us a letter saying that he was willing to accept the criticism of newspapers and masses.

[1978 July 17 [1978 July 10], “Make Revolution and Don't Practice 'Officials Covering Up For Officials'”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 137, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 3:

In February, we received a letter signed the poor and lower middle peasants of Xiaoxiguan Brigade located in Huojia County, Henan, exposing Liu Wenhao, a national government cadre in their brigade and the vice-director of the county external trade bureau, for his squandering and wastefulness in holding a wedding feast for his son. We sent the letter to the Chinese Communist Party Committee of Xinxiang Region, asking them to help us investigate. The Xinxiang Regional Committee, together with the Huojia County Committee, organized an investigation team to do some on-the-spot research.

1980, “The Masses Dare to Speak”, in Hugh Thomas, transl., Comrade Editor: Letters to the People's Daily, Hongkong: Joint Publishing Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 191–192:


Shenqiu

/ˌʃʌnˈt͡ʃjoʊ/

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 沈邱／沈丘.

The proper relationship between the Revolutionary Committees and party committees was outlined by Honan radio on 13 January 1970 on the experience of the party branch committee of the Shen-ch’iu County post office. According to the report, several leaders had initially “failed to treat the relationship between the party branch and the Revolutionary Committee correctly, so that the party branch was unable to play its proper role as the core."

[1971, “China”, in Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1971, Stanford, Cali.: Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 558:

In the Symposium on the Work of Social Relief in Nineteen Provinces, Municipalities, and Autonomous Regions held in Shenchiu County, Honan Province, in November 1983, it was said that the work of supporting the poor had been developed by over 31,000 people's communes in 1,814 counties in mainland China.

[1986, Yu-ming Shaw, editor, Mainland China: Politics, Economics, and Reform, Westview Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 489:

Mr. Wang, whose roost was a rural county called Shenqiu in Henan Province in central China, is now under arrest, but other local tycoons are thriving outside the law.
Central Authorities Alarmed
Shenqiu County is closed to foreigners, and the authorities rejected a reporter's request to visit there. But the central authorities are clearly alarmed that local officials repeatedly defied outside investigators, and some fear that the Shenqiu affair represents decentralization gone berserk.

1993 May 16, Sheryl WuDunn, “China Is Trying to Curb 'Warlord' Businessman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-26, World:

In Shenqiu county, citizens fought the flood by building a dike. But the hastily constructed structure could not contain the floodwater, which overflowed the banks every year, forcing local residents to make annual repairs.

1994, “War and Rural Mobilization: The Rivereast Floodplain”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 220: