Shanyin

Proper noun

Shanyin

1. A county of Shuozhou, Shanxi, China.
   • Just as the deep-plowing campaign was unfolding in (Hochiayao) brigade, Shanyin County, "a handful of class enemies jumped up and tried to stir up trouble among the masses and undermine their fighting spirit."1970 November 4 [1970 October 31], “Local Deep-Plowing Achievements”, in Daily Report: Communist China, volume I, number 215, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taiyuan Shansi...
   • One example is the Youyi mine in Shanyin county, a district of Shanxi under the administration of Shuozhou city.[…]
   • In Shanyin, 20 out of 21 mines have been ordered to shut down and be overhauled, said the mine's managing director, Sun Chuntian.[…]
   • Of Shanyin county's 21 coal mines, the number closed for reconstruction and revamp is: 202010 December 13, Eric Ng, “Modernisation drive leaves trail of ghost mines”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2024, Latest
2. (historical) A county of Zhejiang, China, part of modern-day Shaoxing.
   • Ts’ai Yüan-p’ei (also named Ho-ch’ing and Chieh-min) (1876-1940) was born in Shanyin County, Chekiang Province. He passed the second civil service examination in 1889 and the third in 1892 which secured for him the highest degree, han-lin.1960, Tse-tsung (周策縱) Chow, “The Initial Phase of the Movement: Early Literary and Intellectual Activities, 1917-1919”, in The May Fourth Movement: Intellectual Revolution in Modern China, Harvard...
   • In 1903 Ts'ai Yüan-p'ei, a native of Shaohsing's Shan-yin county and later to become famous as Chancellor of Peking University, gave a speech to a group of fellow Shaohsing natives living in Shanghai.[1986, James H. Cole, “Introduction”, in Shaohsing: Competition and Cooperation in Nineteenth-Century China, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9