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Shansi

/ ˈʃæˈː /

noun

  1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Shanxi
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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When we are suddenly jerked by these sequences from the comforting familiarity of the United States into a scared child’s memory of a dying grandmother in remote Ningbo, to remembrances of an arranged marriage with a murderous ending in Shansi or to recollections of a distraught woman abandoning her babies during wartime in Guizhou, we may readily feel bewildered and lost.

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They invaded Shansi province, as well as the provinces bordering us.

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Glass, J. G. H. Report on the concessions of the Pekin Syndicate, limited, in the provinces of Shansi and Hoonan, China, with estimates of cost of railways and other works necessary for their development.

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Through Shansi roving harvesters were earning from four to twelve cents a day, and farm-hands got five or six dollars a year and their keep.

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One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders.

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