Chien-shih

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^[1], 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^[2], 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^[3], →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.

Translations

Jianshi — see Jianshi