Chien-shih

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English

Map including Chien-shih (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 建始 (Jiànshǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chien⁴-shih³.

Proper noun

Chien-shih

  1. Alternative form of Jianshi
    • 1962, Tʻung-tsu Chʻü, Local Government in China under the Ch'ing, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 299:
      Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).
    • 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village, The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153:
      The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
    • 1977, Harold E. Malde, “Geology in Chinese Anthropology”, in Paleoanthropology in the People's Republic of China, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:
      Most interesting of all is the association of five teeth of G. blacki with four molars of a smaller hominid primate (see below) in Dragon Bone cave, Chien-shih district, western Hupei Province (Hsu et al., 1974; "Gao dian," 1975).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chien-shih.

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