Shanxi

name

Etymology: c. late 20th c., from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 陝西 /陕西 (Shǎnxī).

1. Alternative spelling of Shaanxi, a province in northwestern China. Capital: Xi'an.

   “The "Yenan Period," 1935-1947, was the decisive decade of the Chinese Revolution.*[…] Liu Bao-zhei had helped create the Yenan spirit; he had joined the Eighth Route Army in 1937, leaving his home in Henan Province to fight the Japanese in the North. We met Liu on a state farm nestled in the Nanniwan Valley, near Yenan. His face, rough and creased, reflected many years of labor in the harsh climate of northern Shanxi Province. Liu wore a towel tied about his head in the traditional peasant fashion of the area.”

   “My survey deals with the ancient silk road between the former Changan, now Xian in Shanxi (Shanhsi) Province, proceeds to the Gansu Province and finally to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. It is primarily the Northern route which led through the land of the Mongols, Tibetans and Uighurs.”