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(Taipei, Taiwan) An administrative subdivision of Taiwan, commonly translated as county. (Alternative form of xian for mainland China.).
In the hsien, there shall be a hsien government with a hsien magistrate who shall be elected by the people of the hsien.
The fruit is largely eaten, the best coming from Yü-chau hien in Honan, and from Han-yang fu and T'ung-shan hien in Hupeh.
General Li Shu-ch’eng was born at Ch’ien-chiang Hsien, Hupei province, in 1873 and was a salaried licentiate or Linsheng in the Ching Dynasty.
Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).
(2) Huaipin hsien is restored; its present administrative area is the administrative area of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Hsi hsien and the two administrative areas of Ch'issu and Changchuang ch'u of the former Huaipin hsien incorporated into Kushih hsien.
A native of Chihsi hsien, Anhwei, Hu Shih was born in Shanghai.
In China in the Ch’ing dynasty local government was organized on the same principle at all levels. All administrative units, from the province down to the chou (department) and the hsien (district), which are the focus of our study, were designed and created by the central government which financed their budgets, appointed their officials, and directed and supervised their activities.
On the first day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in the year 1907, our respected and beloved Vice Chairman Lin Piao was born to a poverty-stricken family of Lin-chia-ta-wan at the foot of Pai-yang Hill in the Hui-lung mountainous area, Huang-kang hsien, Hupei Province.
Use hsien when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hsien means (Taipei, Taiwan) An administrative subdivision of Taiwan, commonly translated as county. (Alternative form of xian for mainland China.).
Common synonyms include county.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the hsien, there shall be a hsien government with a hsien magistrate who shall be elected by the people of the hsien.
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