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Etymology
From Mandarin 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-Yang².
Proper noun
An-Yang
- Alternative form of Anyang
1934, “Postscript”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, number 6, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 136:There are An-Yang bronzes with inlays of turquoise, and many vessels reported to have come from An-Yang have the deeper parts of the pattern filled with a black, probably bituminous substance which may have served as a kind of inlay purposed to emphasize the details of the design.
1954 November, Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America”, in The Connoisseur, volume CXXXIV, number 540, →OCLC, page 220:This broad yu came from An-Yang, the final capital of the Yin (also called Shang) Dynasty, which ruled from about 1525 to 1028 B.C., according to the revised conclusions of Dr. Bernhard Karlgren and other scholars.
1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 1:In addition to glazed ceramics we have, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like those found at An-Yang.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-Yang.
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