Meaning of Shaanbei | Babel Free

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The northern part of Shaanxi, China.

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“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 film-makers originated, a regional song type⟳ identified at the outset of the film as xintianyou.⁵⁰”

“We started out from Jiangxi with five stretchers and carried them along all the way to Shaanbei [northern Shaanxi province].”

“But Mao’s plans to head toward the Soviet border⟳ changed when Mao and his colleagues discovered from Guomindang papers that a Communist base⟳ area existed in Shaanbei, in northern Shaanxi province near the base⟳ of the Great Wall.”

“There is a widely known story. It is said that when the Kuomintang (KMT) and the CCP were fighting and the CCP was about to win⟳, Huang Yanpei went to Shaanbei, the northern part of Shaanxi province, and had a talk⟳ with Mao Zedong. Huang asked Mao how the CCP could transcend the periodic law of cycles. By relying on democracy was the answer⟳ that Mao gave with self-confidence.”

“Wen Shilong, a college English teacher from the northwestern Chinese city of Yan'an, has become⟳ something of a celebrity for singing the local Shaanbei folk songs. Wen does this, not only with a silvery voice and unique charm but with English lyrics translated from regional dialects. Many locals see⟳ the 57-year-old Wen as a devoted preserver of Shaanbei folk songs, an age-old genre that features powerful, usually high-pitched melodies.”

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