Meaning of Shenmu | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Yulin, Shaanxi, China.

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“In Shenmu County, Shensi Province in the north-western part of China, a medical school for barefoot doctors offers a two year programme.”

“Two tao with three and five perforations, respectively, made of black jade, were found at the site of Shih-mao in Shensi, Yü-lin District, Shen-mu County. Their total lengths are 49 and 55 centimeters.⁴⁷”

“By the 20th century, the Ming wall was simply known as the ‘old frontier’ (lǎobiān). For instance, when Frederick Clapp of the Geographical Review⟳ reached the Ming wall at Shenmu, Shaanxi, in 1920, he wrote in his article of the trip⟳ that 'the natives said: “This is not the ‘Great Wall’; this is the ‘First Frontier Wall’, built only 400 years ago; the ‘Great Wall’ is further north.”'”

“Shenmu, and nearby cities like⟳ Ordos and Fugu, are at the leading edge of broader troubles that are beginning to afflict the entire Chinese economy. Across China, growth has slowed. With the slowdown have⟳ come⟳ rising defaults on loans made outside the conventional banking system, chronic overcapacity in many industries like⟳ coal mining and steel production and, in particularly troubled cities like⟳ Shenmu, a sharp decline⟳ in previously debt-fueled prices for real estate and other assets.”

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