1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry[1], London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:
Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.
1961, Sidney H. Gould, editor, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960[2], Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:
Tingtsun Man. This was discovered in November 1954 in Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province in north-central China.
Excavations made since China's liberation in 1949 have unearthed more human fossils and artifacts of palaeolithic times. The site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, is of particular interest in this connection.
1966 March, Rewi Alley, “Ancient Sites around Houma in Southern Shansi”, in Eastern Horizon[4], volume V, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:
Out from Houma across the hills is Hsiangfen county, which has as one of its villages the Ting Tsun, where in these last few years an archæological team from the Academy of Sciences in Peking has carried out exploration and has uncovered three human teeth in a gravel seam estimated to be of a period 200,000 years ago.
Comrade Chai told us on our way back to the commune headquarters: “The South Shansi Opera Troupe of Hsiangfen County will present two operas. One is a new opera called Red Heart, a modern theme opera about an outstanding commune member who looks after his brigade’s draught animals, and the other is a play about trapping Kuomintang agents called On the Sea Front.
In 1954 P’ei directed the Tingts’un excavations at Hsiangfen, Shansi, where a new paleolithic assemblage, including three hominid teeth, was found. An analysis of the teeth revealed that Tingts’un Man was phylogenetically situated between Peking Man and Modern Man and was close to the Neanderthals, especially Ordos Man. A summary of the Tingts’un finds, by P’ei and others, appeared in 1958 under the title Shan-hsi Hsiang-fen hsien Ting-ts’un chiu-shih-ch’i shih-tai i-chih fa-chueh pao-kao [report on the excavations of the paleolithic site at Tingts’un in Hsiangfen hsien, Shansi].
1970 September 30 [1970 September 27], “Shansi District Reports Upsurge in Local Industry”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 190, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, pages F 1, F 2:
In 1958 Linfen Special District set up many small iron factories which were subsequently "cut down" by Liu Shao-chi.[…] In Hsiangfen County, the numbers of commune-run machinery factories and brigade-run repair and assembly groups have increased from nine to 18 and from 98 to 130, respectively.
1970 November 18 [1970 November 17], “Shansi Brigade Discovers Advantages of Deep Plowing”, in Daily Report: Communist China[5], volume I, number 224, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 2:
Since 1967, (Hsiyang) brigade of (Langchuan) Commune, Hsiangfen County, has deep plowed all its land, doing some of the work in the summer and some in the autumn of each year.
1971 January 12 [1971 January 9], “Shansi Water Conservancy”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 7, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial, translation of original in Mandarin, →OCLC, Communist China: North Region, page F 2:
In Hsiangfen County, the "second battle of agricultural water conservancy capital construction" has started, involving some 1,300 projects of various kinds.
1974 December 13 [1974 December 7], “Shansi Team Thrives After Establishing Collective Hog Farm”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 241, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 1:
Hog-raising has developed rapidly in the third production team of the (Chihhui) production brigade, (Taokun) commune, Hsiangfen County since 1971 when a collective hog farm was established.
Most significant of all was the discovery of "Tingtsun Man” in 1954, at Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province. The site yielded three juvenile teeth along with great numbers of stone tools and fossil vertebrates.
1976 February 26 [1976 February 25], “Shansi County Criticism Aids Tachai Emulation”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 39, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi Provincial Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 2:
Hsiangfen County CCP Committee has launched the cadres and masses to study Chairman Mao's teachings and criticize the revisionist program of "taking the three instructions as the key link" pushed by the unrepentant capitalist roaders in the party.
This site is among the largest and richest finds of Paleolithic culture discovered so far in China. Previously the only one of importance from the middle Paleolithic age was the site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county, Shansi province, found in 1953.
1978 October 24 [1978 October 15], “Shansi Commune Rejects County Directive, Earns Greater Income”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China[7], volume I, number 206, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service, translation of original by Ma Ho-ching (in Chinese), →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: North Region, page K 3:
Before the double ninth festival [ninth day of ninth lunar month], Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, saw a promising year--the output of all autumn grain crops increased 10 percent.
1960 January 15 [1960 January 14], “Carry Out the Work on Seed Strains Properly in Order to Insure a Continued Bumper Harvest in Agriculture”, in Daily Report: Foreign Radio Broadcasts, number 10, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking, NCNA, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, Communist China: National Affairs, page BBB 1:
The Hsiangfen people's commune of the Miao National Autonomous County in the Tamiao Mountains of Kwangsi achieved an increase of more than 200 catties of grain per mou as a result of the adoption of good strains in paddy fields.
