[1738, A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet[1], volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. Du Halde, →OCLC, page 172:
Shi-whang-ti having obſerv’d in viſiting his Empire that the Northern Provinces, eſpecially Pe-che-li, Shan-ſi, and Shen-ſi, were much expoſed to the ſudden Incurſions of the Tartars ; he fent a formidable Army, which having driven them back a great way beyond the Frontiers of the Empire, he immediately put in Execution the Scheme he had form'd to ſecure his Country againſt ſuch dangerous Neighbours, by building a Wall from the Sea to the Extremities of the Province of Shen-ſi.]
The Tachai Production Brigade is part of the Tachai Commune in Xiyang County, Shanxi Province, in Northern China. It’s tucked away in the Taihang Mountains, a bit over two hundred miles southwest of Peking, in an area with poor soil, serious erosion, and rock-strewn, mountainous terrain.
For others, control of a province was an end in itself, a means of securing material gains and power. The most extreme case of this was Yan Xi-shan, lord of Shanxi from 1911 until the fall of the Guomindang in 1949.
[2008 September, Yaohui [董耀会] Dong, “To review the historical evolution of the Great Wall [步入长城的历史脉络]”, in 王静 [Wang Jing], transl., Throughout the Great Wall [话说长城][4], 江苏科学技术出版社 [Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:
The Eastern Wei wanted to annex the Western Wei by launching wars for many times, and at the same time dispatched civilians to build the Great Wall for the base of attack and defense. In 543, Gao Huan supervised the construction from Sizhou (today’s Xinzhou of Shānxi Province ) to Malingshu in the west (today’s Jingle of Shānxi Province) and to Tudeng in the east (today’s Dai County in Shānxi Province).]
2017 October 21, Chris Buckley, “In China’s Coal Capital, Xi Jinping’s Dream Remains Elusive”, in The New York Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 October 2017, Asia Pacific[6]:
Mr. Xi began proclaiming his dream since taking power five years ago, though he focused much of his early efforts on battling corruption. In Shanxi, the province that includes Datong, investigators have arrested so many corrupt cadres that the national government has declared the region to be in a state of “implosive corruption.”
2022 November 16, Muyi Xiao, Isabelle Qian, Ang Li, Amy Chang Chien, Vivian Wang, “What Videos Show About the Extremes of China’s ‘Zero-Covid’ Policy”, in The New York Times[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-16, Asia Pacific[8]:
At Haiquan School, in Yuncheng, a city in northern Shanxi Province, thousands of boarding students from first to 12th grade were ordered to stay on campus for at least four weeks.
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.
* During this period the headquarters of the Communist Party and the revolutionary government were in Yenan, in northern Shanxi Province.
1997, Donald J. Marion, The Chinese Filmography: The 2444 Feature Films Produced by Studios in the People's Republic of China from 1949 through 1995[10], McFarland & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212:
After the Red Army sets up headquarters at Yanan in north Shanxi province, he accepts a frontline post in repelling the Japanese invasion, and becomes commander of the New Fourth Army.
Owing to soil erosion, some farmland has become totally barren. In Chenjiagedu Village, Fugu county, Shanxi Province, since all farmland was lost, the local people were obliged to travel several kilometers for fertile soil.
634 ·The Palace of Great Clarity, an imperial resort including residential and official buildings, is constructed northwest of Chang’an in Shanxi Province. 636 ·The Zhaoling (Clarity Tomb) of Emperor Taizong is built in Liquan County, Shanxi Province. The tomb includes the well-known stone sculpture Six Horses of the Clarity Tomb.
2005, Fiona Fordyce, “Selenium Deficiency and Toxicity in the Environment”, in Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health[13], →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 400:
In China, an outbreak of endemic human selenosis was reported in Enshi District, Hubei Province, and in Ziyang County, Shanxi Province, during the 1960s.
Production around the town of Ankang, a hundred miles south of Xian in Shanxi province, dropped by 25 per cent.
2013, Qiang Fang, “Chinese Media and the Rule of Law: The Case of the China Youth Daily, 1979-2006”, in Xiaobing Li, Qiang Fang, editors, Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives[15], University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 42:
In one case reported on December 1, 1997, Judge Zhao Huanchi of Minsheng Road Court in the Linwei district, Shanxi[sic – meaning Shaanxi], issued a subpoena on November 4 to the manager of Weinan Food Service Company, requesting that the manager come to the court.
2022 January 20, “Containing the “eastward movement of Tibetan mysticism”: Targeting Chinese Buddhist practitioners at Larung Gar Academy”, in International Campaign for Tibet[16], archived from the original on 2022-01-20[17]:
Similarly, the government-approved Buddhist Association of Weibin District, Baoji City, Shanxi Province, order in May 2019 carried a prohibition on the spread of Tibetan Buddhism into the district.[…] Document no. 2, 2019 issued by the Buddhist Association of Weibin District, Baoji City,ShanxiProvince[…] The Buddhist Association of Weibin District, Baoji City, Shanxi Province, issued on 23 May, 2019
(Can we date this quote?), “About Shimen District”, in Qian Hua Elementary School [乾華國小][18], archived from the original on 16 October 2020:
The district itself is divided into nine villages: Shanxi (山溪里), Shimen (石門里), Laomei (老梅里), Jianlu (尖鹿里), Maolin (茂林里), Caoli (草里里), Qianhua (乾華里), Fuji (富基里), and Demao (德茂里).
