Xixiang

Proper noun

Xixiang

1. A county of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China.
   • Shensi has a complicated terrain, characterized by an ascending trend from south to north. The Ta Pa Shan range rises in the south, on the Szechwan-Shensi border. Its highest peak, Pa Shan, rises to 9,843 ft., near Sisiang County.[1965, Alfred C. Tan, “SHENSI”, in Collier's Encyclopedia, with Bibliography and Index, volume 20, The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 670, column 2
   • By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site...[1975, Ping-ti Ho, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C....