TAIYUAN

tī-yüän, city (1994 est. pop. 1,642,300), capital of Shanxi prov., N China, on the Fen River, in one of the world's richest coal and iron areas. It is a mining and smelting center with a large iron and steel complex and plants making heavy machinery, chemicals, plastics, fertilizer, cement, paper products, and processed foods. Taiyuan is connected by rail with Beijing. An ancient walled city, it fell to the Communists in 1949 after a siege in which thousands starved. Shanxi Medical College is in the city. Taiyuan was formerly called Yanggu.

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books on: Taiyuan  - 444 results

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1.
Town and Country in China: Identity and Perception
Book by David Faure, Tao Tao Liu; Palgrave, 2002
Subjects: China--Politics And Government, China--Rural Conditions, China--Social Policy, City And Town Life--China--History, City Planning--China--History, Country Life--China--History, Sociology, Urban--China
...Fullerton and Wilson 1909: 87 8. 7 Taiyuan xianzhi , 1826: 3/33a; Liu Dapeng...1957: 3 and Peng Hai, 1997: 46 62. 8 Taiyuan xianzhi 1826:12/13a dates the 7...Modern Travel . London: Morgan and Scott. Taiyuan xianzhi Taiyuan gazetteer . 1552 Hao Shuhou...
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Capital and Knowledge in Asia: Changing Power Relations
Book by Heidi Dahles, Otto Van Den Muijzenberg; Routledge, 2003
...There were about a hundred of these in Taiyuan, with half sourced from Taiwan or through...joint ventures. Joint venture managers in Taiyuan anecdotally were seen to be rather ostentatious...largest producer service operations in Taiyuan was Taiyuan Stone. Taiyuan Stone was...
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China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The Development of the New Private Business Sector
Book by Barbara Krug; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Business Enterprises--China, Businessmen--China, China--Economic Conditions--2000-, Entrepreneurship--China, Small Business--China
Case 7.2 Manager, urban collective: Wang Baoguo, Manager, Taiyuan Trust Stock Exchange, Taiyuan Wang Baoguo was born in Taiyuan in 1951 and graduated from technical school in accountancy. He had been a long-term...
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Hu Yao Bang: A Chinese Biography
Book by William A. Wycoff, Timothy Grieve Cheek, Rudolf G. Wagner; M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1988
Subjects: Hu, Yao-Pang, Statesmen--China--Biography
...at dawn on April 20, the assault on Taiyuan began. After four days of attacks by...taken by the Chinese Communists. The Taiyuan frontline command headquarters then mounted...Peng Dehuai, who still had not left the Taiyuan front line, was worried and called Hu...
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Higher Education in Post-Mao China
Book by Michael Agelasto, Bob Adamson; Hong Kong University Press, 1998
Subjects: Education, Higher--China--History--20th Century, Educational Change--China--History--20th Century
...fifty missionaries had been massacred in Taiyuan during the Boxer Rebellion. For more...1990. 40. Interview with the author, Taiyuan, March 1987. 41. Peoples Education...1982. 42. Interview with the author, Taiyuan, August 1988. 43. Interview with the...
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journal articles on: Taiyuan  - 67 results

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Radiation and Extinction Patterns in Permian Floras from North China as Indicators for Environmental and Climate Change
Journal article by Liadan G. Stevens, Jason Hilton, David P. G Bond, Ian J. Glasspool, Phillip E. Jardine; Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 168, 2011
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Endangered & extinct species, Extinction, Flowers & plants, Geology, Stratigraphy
...formerly Penxi; see Cleal Wang 2002), Taiyuan, Shanxi (formerly Shansi), and Lower...Carboniferous (Fig. 1): the Benxi, Taiyuan and Shanxi formations. The lowermost...the Cisuralian (Asselian-Sakmarian) Taiyuan Formation, which comprises black shales...
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Water Sprites and Ancestor Spirits: Reading the Architecture of Jinci
Journal article by Tracy G. Miller; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects: Architecture, Art, China, Historic buildings & sites, Shrines
...the modern capital of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan.1 According to standard histories and...through the area of Jins ancient capital Taiyuan came to pay tribute. When he arrived...Dynasties period (386-581 C.E.). Taiyuan (located at Jinyang) was an area of...
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Towards Sustainability: Objectives, Strategies and Barriers for Cleaner Production in China
Journal article by Yiping Fang, Raymond P. Côte; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 12, 2005
...investment-integrated assessment in Taiyuan City (Staff Mestl et al. 2003) also...Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shenyang, Taiyuan, Jinan, Kunming, Lanzhou and Fuyang...chemicals, textiles and pharmaceuticals. Taiyuan, in middle reaches of Yellow River...
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Play and Power in Chinese Nightlife Spaces
Journal article by James Farrer; China: An International Journal, Vol. 6, 2008
Subjects: China--Social aspects, Cultural anthropology--Research, Ethnology--Research, Nightclubs--Social aspects, Social life--Research
...nightlife-led development. For example, Taiyuan in the relatively poor inland Shanxi province...houleyuan). (28) Chinese cities such as Taiyuan that are on the margins of transnational...at Chinese Male Homosexual Groups) (Taiyuan: Shanxi renmin chubanshe, 1992...
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Crisis and Governance: Sars and the Resilience of the Chinese Body Politic
Journal article by Patricia M. Thornton; The China Journal, 2009
...medical staff. One official from Shanxis Taiyuan who sought treatment for an oral ulcer...Likewise, some 20 SARS patients in Shanxis Taiyuan fled their hospitals, fearing that the...treatment they were receiving would be free. Taiyuan police were given photographs of the patients...
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magazine articles on: Taiyuan  - 47 results

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"Flowers on Horseback"
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 50, September 2000
Subjects: China--Description and travel, Travel industry--Services
...China. We go to the Shanxi capital of Taiyuan, and cross the Niangzi pass which was...much earlier in Chinas long history. Taiyuan is our base for visiting the Jin Ci temple...important rituals. Day 5 Beijing -- Taiyuan Travel by road through Niang Zi Pass to...
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The Legacy of Timothy Richard
Magazine article by P. Richard Bohr; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 24, April 2000
Subjects: China, Christianity, History, Missionaries, Personal profiles, Richard, Timothy (1845-1919)
...Mary and Timothy Richard were busy in Taiyuan, Shanxi s capital, distributing Christian...supporting churches.13 After returning to Taiyuan in 1887, Richard-recalling Zo Zongtangs...wounded by this criticism, Richard left Taiyuan for Beijing in November 1887 to contemplate...
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Motorola and Official Chinese News Agency Contradict Each Other on Missile Advances
Magazine article by Terence P. Jeffrey; Human Events, Vol. 54, July 17, 1998
Subjects: China, Communications satellites, Missiles, Motorola Inc
...Motorola, was successfully launched in Taiyuan, capital of north Chinas Shanxi Province...satellites into the pre-set orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launching Centre." Why a test...the Long March 2-III carrier and the Taiyuan Launching Centre, a preparatory step...
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Baptism of Fire: China's Christians and the Boxer Uprising of 1900
Magazine article by R. G. Tiedemann; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 24, January 2000
Subjects: China, Christianity, Martyrs, Rebellions
...the Boxer fanatics took place July 9 in the capital city, Taiyuan. Here in one day a total of 33 Protestant missionaries with...Shandong governor, Yuxian, is thought to have ordered the Taiyuan executions that summer. In Chinas more advanced areas (eastern...
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Our Real China Problem: The Price of China's Surging Economy Is a Vast Degradation of the Environment, with Planetary Implications
Magazine article by Mark Hertsgaard; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 280, November 1997
Subjects: China, Environmental policy--China, Pollution
...In Datong black emissions were routine and ubiquitous. Nevertheless, Datong was soon supplanted by Taiyuan, its neighbor to the south. Taiyuan, the provincial capital, was another major coal center that seemed to impose no controls on smokestack...
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newspaper articles on: Taiyuan  - 24 results

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Chinese Missile Test
Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 7, 2010
Subjects: Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
...Chinas military fired a missile from the Taiyuan missile center, about 320 miles southwest...a corridor of airspace stretching from Taiyuan to Korla until Sept. 25. After Sept...included the launch of a target missile from Taiyuan and an interceptor missile from Korla...
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Inside the Ring; Bill Gertz
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 21, 2009
Subjects: Hoekstra, Pete
...commercial satellite images showing a significant expansion of the Taiyuan Space Launch Center, Chinas main missile test facility, since 2006. The imagery shows that Taiyuan has doubled in terms of launch capability since 2006, a clear indication...
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A Zest for Life; Design News
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 7, 2006
...design furniture. Fabrics start at pounds sterling16 metre for Taipei Rojo - a pure cotton stripe, up to pounds sterling52 for Taiyuan Rojo, a floral jacquard in pink, red and green. The Antalia Berenjena striped fabric (above) starts at pounds sterling38...
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Clean Air for All, Not RFID for Us
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 15, 2010
Subjects: Air pollution, Particulate pollutants, Pollution control, RFID equipment, Radio frequency identification (RFID)
...exhaust pipesAnything over 100 micrograms of particles per cubic meter of air is considered dangerous, yet in cities like Taiyuan, China, and Delhi, India, the levels routinely top 500 micrograms. The threat is compounded by the fact that so many people...
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Veteran Witnesses Century of Change
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, August 7, 2011
...prosperous. Its bountiful supplies of rice and meat contrasted sharply with the barren countryside just north of his hometown of Taiyuan, where many got by on rice porridge. Wei was trained first by Chinese instructors and then by the U.S. Flying Tigers under...
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encyclopedia articles on: Taiyuan  - 5 results

 
 
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Taiyuan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TAIYUAN ti-yuan, city (1994 est. pop. 1...paper products, and processed foods. Taiyuan is connected by rail with Beijing. An...Shanxi Medical College is in the city. Taiyuan was formerly called Yanggu...
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Shanxi
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...000 sq mi (155,400 sq km), NE China. The capital is Taiyuan . It is bounded on the west and the south by the Huang He...and N China. There are extensive road networks centered in Taiyuan, Datong, Changzhi, Linfen, and Houma. The Fen River...
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China
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Mukden), Harbin, and Changchun . Great inland cities include Beijing and the river ports of Nanjing , Chongqing , and Wuhan. Taiyuan and Xian are important centers in the less populated interior, and Lanzhou is the key communications junction of the vast...
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Yanggu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YANGGU see Taiyuan , China. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Yangquan
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...YANGQUAN yang chuan , city (1994 est. pop. 402,300), E central Shanxi prov., China, on the highway and railroad linking Taiyuan with Hebei prov. The center of an important coal-producing area, it is a growing industrial city. Iron is also mined nearby...


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