Lishi
English
Alternative forms
- Li-shih (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 離石 / 离石 (Líshí).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈli(ˈ)ʃi/
Proper noun
Lishi
- A district of Lüliang, Shanxi, China.
- 2016, Fang Wang, “Geo-Architecture Blending into Nature”, in Geo-Architecture and Landscape in China’s Geographic and Historic Context[1], volume 3, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 133:
- Geomorphologic Features
The Lüliang region is located in the western Shanxi Province. Geologist Professor Liu Dongsheng first identified the section drawing of the Lishi Loess in Wangjiagou, Lishi District, LüliangCity.
- 2017 September 13, Xinqi Su, Viola Zhou, “One of China’s ‘feminist five’ gender equality activists banned from leaving country for decade”, in South China Morning Post[2], archived from the original on 13 September 2017:
- Wu said she was determined to fight the decision. On September 6 she mailed documents for a lawsuit of the public security authorities in both Jiaocheng county and Luliang city to a local court in the Lishi district of Luliang.
- 2018, Fenggang Yang, “North China [华北地区]”, in Atlas of Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts[3], Brill Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90, column 1:
- Lishi District 离石区 in Lüliang and Xiaodian District 小店区 in Taiyuan had a strikingly high percentage of young population, around 60 percent.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lishi.
Translations
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Lishi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1750, column 3