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Shansi

British  
/ ˈʃænˈsiː /

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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Soon after, he presided over the highly publicized agriculture meetings held in Shansi province and later Peking, where he gave the keynote speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is a native of Shansi province in northern China, where he joined the Communist Party.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing in on Linfeng, temporary provincial capital, which is some 60 miles north of the river.

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Kiangsi province has ordered 480,000 civil servants to the farm, Shansi province sent 400,000 "retrenched" industrial and dam workers to the countryside, and Kwangtung province promised 1,000,000 laborers who had "blindly immigrated to the cities."

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

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

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