Meaning of Tianzhen | Babel Free

Definitions

A county of Datong, Shanxi, China.

Examples

“On August 27th the Court crossed the Shansi border, and spent the night at T'ien-chen hsien. The local Magistrate, a Manchu, had committed suicide after hearing of the fall of Mukden and other Manchurian cities; and the town was in a condition of ruinous disorder.”

“Recently in Tienchen County, the Kweichow Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Bureau convened a forum on rice cultivation, attended by responsible cadres of the agricultural bureaus of a number of regions, autonomous chou and counties and persons concerned, together with a number of poor and lower-middle peasants.”

“Stretches of wall run through what is modern Tianzhen county, heading boldly into the Inner Mongolia to the east.”

“Its mud-and-brick buildings, and its setting among dusty hills in the north-eastern corner of Shanxi province, offer little to the occasional visitor to distinguish it from countless other parts of China where hard work brings but a meagre living. Yet Tianzhen county, of which Dingjiayan is a part, is one of just 592 areas that the central government designates as “impoverished”.”

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