An-t'u

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See also: antu, an tử, án tù, and Antu

English

Map including An-t'u 安圖) (center left) (AMS, 1956)

Etymology

From Mandarin 安圖安图 (Āntú) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-tʻu².

Proper noun

An-t'u

  1. Alternative form of Antu (place in China)
    • 1965 July 15, “A Breed Geared Towards the Cold Climate of the North, the "Ch'ang-feng-hao"”, in Agricultural Development Sustained by Crop Improvement in China, sourced from Chugoku Sangyo Shashin Tsushih (Photos and Features on Chinese Industry), No 48, pp 1-9, page :
      On coming home in 1936, Mr. Liao Ch'ang-yin (at present 29 years old), a senior high school student, member of the First Production xxxxxxx Team of the Hsin-hsing Production Brigade, Wan-pao People's Commune, An-t'u Hsien, Chi-lin province, devoted himself to the study of various wetfield rice breeds.
    • 1966 February 25 [1965 December 20], Jen Yuan-shou (0117 0337 1108) [任元壽], “Forestry Operation Village Is an Ideal Form of Organization in Building Socialist New Forestry Region”, in Translations from Ching-chi Yen-chiu (Economic Research), number 12, United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Ching-chi Yen-chiu (Economic Research) , Peiping, No 12, pp 28-31, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 62:
      It behooves forestry-operation villages to adopt the policy of coordinating what is viable with what is economical to engage in items which require less money and yield large profit in order to achieve self-sufficiency in vegetables, meat and eggs. Whenever it is possible, they should also be self-sufficient in grain. For instance, the Miao-ling forestry-operation village in An-t'u hsien, Kirin, has done this in recent years.
    • 1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “Notes”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 333:
      For one of many cases of RYs, see KMJP 10/27/72, in SCMP 5252, 11/9/72, concerning the deeds of Liu Ch’ang-yin, who returned to his Korean mountain village in An-t’u hsien, Kirin, in the 1950s and spent many years experimenting with the cultivation of rice in the mountains.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-t'u.