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Shansi
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thumb|1 Yuan (Reverse), from THE SHANSI PROVINCIAL BANK (1936)
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en https://archive.org/details/b29353002/ 1912 Through Shên-kan: The Account of the Clark Expedition in North China, 1908-9. w:Robert Sterling Clark; w:Arthur de Carle Sowerby w:T. Fisher Unwin 76 On the road between this place and Fu Chou, two days further east, numerous large flicks of sheep and goats were passed. These poor animals were on their way to Shansi, and had already come a great distance.
en https://archive.org/details/twentyfiveyearsi0000mcke/ 1913 Twenty-five Years in Honan Rev. Murdoch Mackenzie, D.D. Hunter-Rose Co. Toronto 2 The province is separated by a range of hills from Shansi on the north and west, while in the south, the eastern end of a long mountain chain terminates near Ju Ning Fu.
en https://archive.org/details/thechinesepeasan0000unse/ 1970 The Chinese Peasant Economy Agricultural Development in Hopei and Shantung, 1890-1949 Ramon H. Myers w:Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts 259 Headmen were selected on a rotation basis in Shansi but served indefinitely in Hopei and Shantung until illness or dissatisfaction with their responsibilities forced retirement.
en https://archive.org/details/adventuresinanth00kennrich/ 1977 Adventures in Anthropology William Jerald Kennedy w:West Publishing 0-8299-0094-2 76-28709 2903014 274 https://archive.org/details/adventuresinanth00kennrich/page/274/ Ting-ts'un Man, who lived in the watersheds in southern Shansi, continued to use pebble and flake chopping-tools, crude flakes being obtained mainly from large hornfels pebbles.
en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-08-02_22_30/ August 2, 1981 What's ahead of demoted Hua? Free China Weekly XXII 30 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 3 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1981-08-02_22_30/page/n2/ We now know that he was born in Shansi province in 1921, but the next thing we know is that because of the "good work" Hua did in Mao's native province of Hunan, he was summoned to Peiping and given the post of public security minister.
en 2002 w:Sam Daley-Harris Pathways out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families https://archive.org/details/pathwaysoutofpov00dale/ w:Kumarian Press 1-56549-159-9 2002014809 502470534 8665092M 137 https://archive.org/details/pathwaysoutofpov00dale/page/137/ China’s remaining poverty is primarily rural, mainly scattered among remote, mountainous, and minority nationality areas in the northwest and southwest. To address this challenge China is shifting from regional development projects to household-based initiatives that are increasingly directed at women. One especially successful example has been the poverty alleviation program sponsored by the Luliang Prefecture Women’s Federation (LPWF) in Shansi province.
en 2017 J. (Hans) Kommers Triumphant Love https://archive.org/details/dli.doa.182/ 978-1-928396-21-5 1030822437 522 https://archive.org/details/dli.doa.182/page/n554/ Jonathan Goforth, CIM missionary to China, who experienced several revivals in Manchuria, Shansi, and in Korea from 1906 to 1910, was very disappointed by the outcome of the Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in 1910.
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