Anyang
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Mandarin 安陽 / 安阳 (Ānyáng).
Proper noun
Anyang
- A prefecture-level city in Henan, China.
- 1936, Herrlee Glessner Creel, “Notes on Professors Karlgren's System for Dating Chinese Bronzes”, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Stephen Austin and Sons, page 463:
- Research on the oracle bones, scientific excavations at Anyang and elsewhere, and other investigations and discoveries have not served merely to thow light on the civilization of late Shang and early Chou times.
- 1977 August 14, “HK magazine: pol. prisoners killed by Reds”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 32, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
- The Hongkong-published magazine quoted "Chinese-speaking travelers" who witnessed part of the event in Anyang, a coal-mining center in Honan province, on Aug. 2.
- 1995 March, Joseph E. Boling, “Far East”, in Numismatic Literature, number 133, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
- The discovery of Anyang square foot spade coin molds near Pao-t'ou in Inner Mongolia leads the author through a literature search for the several Anyang place names; he concludes that the disocvery location once bore that name and is the probable source of the coins.
- 2012 [2000 February 1], Zemin Jiang, “Correctly Guide the Healthy Growth of Young People”, in Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, volume II, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 579:
- Today’s Guangming Daily also reports that in Anyang, Henan Province, the father of a student brought a gang to school to beat up a class teacher because their son was neither assessed as being a student of merit nor elected captain of his school’s Young Pioneers detachment. Reports like this, which have also appeared in the past, are shocking and have caused me to reflect deeply.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Anyang.
- A county of Anyang, Henan, China.
- A town in Hubei, China.
Translations
a city in Henan, China
Further reading
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Anyang”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 81, column 2
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Anyang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155, column 2