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Two-page opening plate from the 1841 Xinhui county gazetteer showing a county map and a walled city plan in line drawing

The Shen (沈) Surname: Three Founding Stories and a Commandery That Became a Brand

Five Point Seven Million People, and a Roster With Seventy-Three Slots The Shen surname belongs to roughly 5,710,800 people in mainland China — 52nd on the 2020 household-registration tabulation, counting registered residents and excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. No other figure is used here; the 14 that still circulates is a slot in the…

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