Fanshi
English
editEtymology
editFrom the Hanyu Pinyin romanization for the Mandarin 繁峙 (Fánshì).
Proper noun
editFanshi
- A county of Xinzhou, Shanxi, China.
- [1972 March 7 [1972 March 5], “Party Promotes Criticims Campaign in Shansi Region”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[1], volume I, number 46, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page D 10[2]:
- After criticizing swindlers like Liu Shao-chi, poor and lower-middle peasants of the (Aotzutou) brigade in Fanshih County "turned their righteous anger into strength and did one and a half days' work in one day." These examples greatly inspired the cadres.]
- 2002, Daiheng Guo, “The Liao, Song, Xi Xia, and Jin Dynasties”, in Nancy S. Steinhardt, editor, Chinese Architecture[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 150:
- Scholars have been intrigued to learn of an almost one-to-one correspondence between the plan of the Jin palace city as described in Lanbei lu and the plan derived from paintings of Buddhist paradises on the walls of the south hall of Yanshan Monastery in Fanshi county, Shanxi.
- 2015, S. A. Smith, “Redemptive Religious Societies and the Communist State, 1949 to the 1980s”, in Jeremy Brown, Matthew D. Johnson, editors, Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism[4], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 350–351:
- The higher authorities saw all such activity as a counterrevolutionary attempt to infiltrate state and Party organs from within, but it is likely that some officials and Party members saw no contradiction between their political and religious affiliations, especially in areas, such as Fanshi County, where the sects were fairly well integrated into community life.
- 2019 July 5, “Teacher draws stunning chalkboard drawings(1/5)”, in Li Yan, editor, China News Service[5], archived from the original on July 13, 2019[6]:
- Art teacher Zhao Wenrui draws on chalkboard at Binhe Elementary School in Fanshi County, North China’s Shanxi Province, July 4, 2019.
Translations
editFurther reading
edit- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Fanshi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[7], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1203, column 3