Word: shaanxi
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...charges apparently grew out of a recent motorcycle trip Burns made through Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces in north-central China. A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times, described Burns' excursion as "purely journalistic...
...admitted into the Communist Party in 1933. He first attracted Mao's attention during the legendary 1934 Long March in the civil war against the Chinese Nationalists, when the Communists retreated 6,000 miles through eleven provinces before reaching Yanan in Shaanxi province. Though Hu never finished primary school and had to teach himself how to read, Mao assigned him to increasingly important jobs in the C.Y.L. in the 1930s. In 1941 Hu met Deng while they were both serving as political commissars with the army. Following the defeat of the Nationalists, Hu rose to become head...
...years ago, farmers digging a well in a cornfield near the Yellow River in China's Shaanxi province came upon a pottery figure. Subsequent organized digging uncovered an amazing archaeological find: a magnificent buried army of life-sized terra cotta soldiers, rank on rank, some 7,000 strong-charioteers behind chariots and horses, mounted cavalrymen, kneeling archers, thousands of spearmen, each individually sculptured and fully detailed. Scholars determined that the terra cotta army was commissioned by Qin Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, as a guard for his tomb, which lies nearly a mile to the west...