"Shaanbei" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999, Jerome Silbergeld, “Drowning on Dry Land: Yellow Earth and the Traditionalism of the 'Avant-garde'”, in China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Reaktion Books, →OCLC, page 32",
          "text": "Thus, whatever her personal sense of loss and anxiety, she does not so much create an oppositional concept of filial piety as refashion the more public Confucianized image.⁴⁹ There is perhaps some equivalence to this in the Ansai district of Shaanbei, where the folksongs collected by Yellow Earth's film-makers originated, a regional song type identified at the outset of the film as xintianyou.⁵⁰",
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          "text": "We started out from Jiangxi with five stretchers and carried them along all the way to Shaanbei [northern Shaanxi province].",
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          "ref": "2002, Feigon Lee, “Rethinking Mao—The Long March”, in Mao: A Reinterpretation (Biography/History), Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61",
          "text": "But Mao’s plans to head toward the Soviet border changed when Mao and his colleagues discovered from Guomindang papers that a Communist base area existed in Shaanbei, in northern Shaanxi province near the base of the Great Wall.",
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          "ref": "2006 Spring, Xiaoguang Kang, “Confucianization: A Future in the Tradition”, in China in Transition, volume 73, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108",
          "text": "There is a widely known story. It is said that when the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP were fighting and the CCP was about to win, Huang Yanpei went to Shaanbei, the northern part of Shaanxi province, and had a talk with Mao Zedong. Huang asked Mao how the CCP could transcend the periodic law of cycles. By relying on democracy was the answer that Mao gave with self-confidence.",
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          "ref": "2021 May 20, “Across China: English teacher gives Chinese folk songs a foreign twist”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the original on 2021-05-20",
          "text": "Wen Shilong, a college English teacher from the northwestern Chinese city of Yan'an, has become something of a celebrity for singing the local Shaanbei folk songs. Wen does this, not only with a silvery voice and unique charm but with English lyrics translated from regional dialects.\nMany locals see the 57-year-old Wen as a devoted preserver of Shaanbei folk songs, an age-old genre that features powerful, usually high-pitched melodies.",
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