Chien-shih
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 建始 (Jiànshǐ), Wade–Giles romanization: Chien⁴-shih³.
Proper noun[edit]
Chien-shih
- Alternative form of Jianshi
- 1962, Tʻung-tsu Chʻü, Local Government in China under the Ch'ing[1], Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 299:
- Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).
- 1965 [1959], C. K. Yang, “Changing Family Economic Structure”, in Chinese Communist Society: The Family and The Village[2], The M.I.T. Press, →OCLC, page 153:
- The head of an agricultural producers’ cooperative in Chien-shih county of Hupei Province lectured his peasant wife: “To gain emancipation, women must do production work just like men.”
- 1977, Harold E. Malde, “Geology in Chinese Anthropology”, in Paleoanthropology in the People's Republic of China[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:
- Most interesting of all is the association of five teeth of G. blacki with four molars of a smaller hominid primate (see below) in Dragon Bone cave, Chien-shih district, western Hupei Province (Hsu et al., 1974; "Gao dian," 1975).
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chien-shih.
Translations[edit]
Jianshi — see Jianshi