Shansi

/ ˈʃænˈsiː /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Shanxi

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times

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

From Literature

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Time Magazine Archive