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Shan-hsi
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Etymology
From en cmn 山西 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Shan¹-hsi¹.Shanxi, Wade-Giles romanization Shan-hsi, in Encyclopædia Britannica
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en Shanxi.
en https://archive.org/details/upliftofchina00smi/ 1907 w:Arthur Henderson Smith The Uplift of China The Eddy Press 8 https://archive.org/details/upliftofchina00smi/page/8/ The Great Plain extends from the Yang-tzŭ River to the mountains which divide Chih-li and Shan-hsi and Manchuria, and supports a population estimated at more than a hundred millions, reminding one in denstiy of inhabitants of the province of Bengal.
en 1966 Theodore Herman China Around the World Program https://archive.org/details/china-around-the-world-program/ American Geographical Society, Nelson Doubleday, Inc. 663394296 54 https://archive.org/details/china-around-the-world-program/page/54/ Farmers husking corn at the Ming Chien People’s Commune in T’ai-yuan, Shan-hsi, are using their new electrical machine.[...]A mechanical cotton picker has not yet appeared in the Ming Chien People’s Commune in Shan-hsi, so slow hand picking goes on.
en 2015 Xiao Bai Chenxin Jiang French Concession https://archive.org/details/frenchconcession0000xiao_y4x3/ w:Harper Collins Publishers 978-0-06-231345-4 2014037081 919478151 29704933M 49 https://archive.org/details/frenchconcession0000xiao_y4x3/page/49/ Apparently the Russians had complained that tea tasted different when it was shipped in by train, having gotten used to tea saturated with the sweat of camels carrying merchants across the Gobi Desert from Shan-hsi.
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Shanxi
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