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[[underlined]] Chapter XVII. [[/underlined]] 35^[[7.]]

amicable and mutually satisfactory arrangement. It was mainly due to Dr. Tsao's close friendship with Gov. Yen, of Shansi, that we were now able to carry out our immediate plans without any of the trouble and opposition that we had encountered on past occasions.

[[underlined]] Excavation in Southwestern Shansi. [[/underlined]] ^[[1926]]
In September, Peking was again placed under martial law; but/in Shansi, then as always isolated and protected by its mountain barriers, (324) matters
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(324) It has been the existence of these mountain barriers that has enabled the Shansi region to maintain and safeguard an individuality of its own at least from proto-historic times down to the present. Thus, to go back to the Chinese Bronze Age, for instance, it was they that were chiefly responsible for the formation and long-continued existence of the old feudal state of Chin, and later, of that of Chao.
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were fairly quiet. Dr. Li's health had not permitted his leaving for the field sooner; but on September 20th he and Mr. Yüan set out for their site. This lay almost exactly 300 miles slightly west of south from the provincial capital, T'ai-yüan, at a spot just west of the country village of Hsi Yin Ts'un [[3 Chinese characters]], a few miles northeast of Hsia Hsien [[2 Chinese character]], the reputed capital of the shadowy "Hsia Dynasty". (325) Mr.
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(325) For the kernel of fact underlying the traditions of a Hsia "Dynasty" see Dr. H. G. Creel, "Was there a Hsia Dynasty?", in his [[underlined]] Studies in [[strikethrough]] Chinese [[/strikethrough]] Early Chinese Culture [[/underlined]], Baltimore, 1937, pp. 97-131.
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Tung and I planned to follow in a few days.
  It was not, however, until Oct. 11th that conditions (which had grown worse in the meantime) permitted our leaving, by rail, for T'ai-yüan. And even then, the normal 10 hours required for the journey extended themselves to nearly 3 days, on account of troop movements and other disturbances caused by the war. At T'ai-yüan we found Dr. Wang(see page 315 and [[underlined]] passim [[/underlined]]) and his young English wife most kind and helpful, especially in aiding us to effect the necessary contacts with the provincial officials. Upon our arrival in T'ai-yüan, Mr. Tung and I learned

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