Shouyang
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See also: shǒuyǎng
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Etymology
Proper noun
Shouyang
- A county of Jinzhong, Shanxi, China.
- 1937 December 14, “AMERICANS VANISH IN CHINA; Missionaries Not Seen Since Leaving Japanese-Held Town”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06, page 23:
- Three American missionaries were reported today to have disappeared from Shouyang in East Shansi Province. They have not been seen since the night of Dec. 2, when they left the mission to visit a friend.
- 1974, Current Scene: Developments in Mainland China, volumes 12-13, →OCLC, page 17, column 2:
- The article looked at the situation in Shouyang county, adjacent to Hsiyang county, Shansi, home of Tachai. Shouyang, according to Red Flag, had failed to benefit from proximity to China's agricultural pace-setter, for class enemies […]
- 1998, Xiao-meng Qin, “The Qin Clan”, in Heartbeats and Heartaches: Memoirs of an Intellectual Family in China, 1stBooks Library, published 2003, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
- After he had passed the imperial examination in Peking, he acquired the title of jinshi* and was appointed a Hanlin (imperial college) academician by the Qing court. He was Prefect of Shouyang County in Shanxi Province.
- 2017, Luo Weiwei [羅娓娓], “Locality and Temple Fundraising in Northern Qing China”, in Hsun Chang [張珣], Benjamin Perry [裴凝], editors, Religion in Taiwan and China: Locality and Transmission [台灣與中國之宗教:地方性與傳承], Taipei: Academia Sinica, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 37:
- Using examples from Shouyang county in Shanxi province, this paper discusses the concepts of locality in both official and local sources, especially in the context of financing local cults.