Huai-nan

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See also: Huainan and Huáinán

English

Map including HUAI-NAN (T'IEN-CHIA-AN) (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 淮南 (Huáinán), Wade–Giles romanization: Huai²-nan².[1]

Proper noun

Huai-nan

  1. Alternative form of Huainan
    • 1970, S. A. M. Adshead, The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:
      Every aspect of the salt trade required official sanction and the issue of permits. As an illustration, let us consider the marketing of a consignment of salt from the Huai-nan salines to an up-river port such as Hankow or Ta-t'ung. The yard merchant (ch'ang-shang) at the salines had to report his output of salt daily to the salt receiver (ch'ang-kuan), and could carry salt for sale to Shih-erh-wei only on the requisition of the Huai-nan general office (Huai-nan tsung-chü) at Yangchow, transmitted through the salt receiver; when he received this, the had to apply back to Yangchow for a transport permit (ch'ung-yen chih-chao) and to his local branch office (fen-ssu) for a cargo certificate (ts'ang-tan).
    • 1992, Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead, Salt and Civilization, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 84:
      Marco Polo was right to be impressed by Huai-nan and Liang-che. By a mixture of favourable market opportunities, government support and considerably technical ingenuity at least, they recovered a lead for chien over shai in China which was not lost until the nineteenth century.
    • 1994 [145–86 BCE], Ssu-ma Chʻien, edited by William Nienhauser, The Grand Scribe's Records, volume 1, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 206:
      When he reached Yin-ling 陰陵,²⁶⁵ he lost his way and asked an old farmer.[...]
      ²⁶⁵ A county northwest of modern Ting-yüan 定遠 County in Anhwei (Wang Li-ch'i, 7:182n.) about 25 miles east of modern Huai-nan 淮南 City (see also T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:19).

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References

  1. ^ Huainan, Wade Giles romanization Huai-nan, in Encyclopædia Britannica