Shaanbei

Proper noun

Shaanbei

1. The northern part of Shaanxi, China.
   • Thus, whatever her personal sense of loss and anxiety, she does not so much create an oppositional concept of filial piety as refashion the more public Confucianized image.⁴⁹ There is perhaps some equivalence to this in the Ansai district of Shaanbei, where the folksongs collected by Yellow Earth's...1999, Jerome Silbergeld, “Drowning on Dry Land: Yellow Earth and the Traditionalism of the 'Avant-garde'”, in China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema, Reaktion Books...
   • We started out from Jiangxi with five stretchers and carried them along all the way to Shaanbei [northern Shaanxi province].2001, Helen Praeger Young, quoting Wang Quanyuan, “First Front Women”, in Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 191