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An-ch'ing
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an·ching An-chʻing
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Etymology
From en cmn 安慶, en cmn-wadegiles -Anqing, Wade-Giles romanization An-ch’ing, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1972 Shabad Theodore Index China's Changing Map https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/ New York Frederick A. Praeger 71-178868 482667885 345, 346 https://archive.org/details/chinaschangingma0000unse/page/346/ Chinese place names are listed in three common spelling styles:(2) the Wade-Giles system,shown after the main entry(3) the Chinese Communists' own Pinyin romanization system, which also appears in parenthesesAnking (An-ch’ing, Anqing)en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/232/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Anqing/An-ch'ing/Shu romanization: An¹-chʻing⁴, with the aspiration mark represented by an apostrophe.
Proper noun
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en 1887 W. P. Groeneveldt Reinhold Rost Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap01rost/ London w:Trübner & Co. I 51375174 165 https://archive.org/details/miscellaneouspap01rost/page/165/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miscellaneous_Papers_Relating_to_Indo-China_and_the_Indian_Archipelago.pdf “In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed. ‡ zh 安慶府, in the province of An-hwui.
en 1910 J. O. P. Bland; Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet E. Backhouse China Under the Empress Dowager https://archive.org/details/chinaunderempres01blan/ Philadelphia; London J. B. Lippincott Company; William Heinemann 1135162764 13999716M 37 https://archive.org/details/chinaunderempres01blan/page/37/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:China_under_the_Empress_Dowager_1910.pdf But the virile and untiring energies of Yehonala, ably supported by Jung Lu and other faithful followers, soon put a new complexion on affairs, and the situation was further modified in her favour by the success of her nominee, the Commander-in-Chief, Tseng Kuo-fan, in capturing the city of An-ch’ing (in Anhui) from the rebels, a victory that was regarded as of good augury to her cause.
en 1973 w:Gilbert Rozman Regional Variations in Cities Urban Networks in Ch’ing China and Tokugawa Japan https://archive.org/details/urbannetworksinc0000rozm/ Princeton, N.J. w:Princeton University Press 0-691-03082-0 72-1986 251969468 235 https://archive.org/details/urbannetworksinc0000rozm/page/235/ In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing.
en 1996 w:Jacques Gernet Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century A History of Chinese Civilization https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern_0/ 2nd w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-49712-4 469087696 1274516M 629 https://archive.org/details/historyofchinese00gern_0/page/629/ The men installed in the central provinces by Yüan Shih-k’ai when order was restored—Feng Kuo-chang at Nanking, Tuan Ch’i-jui at An-ch’ing (in Anhwei), Li Chun at Nan-ch’ang—were not slow to demonstrate in turn their own desire to be independent of their protector.
en 1998 The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth https://books.google.com/books?id=x_cpAQAAMAAJ 9780852296639 37558138 173 Towns of lesser importance include An-ch'ing, the former provincial capital; Ma-an-shan; and Ta-t'ung.
en 2003 Ulrich Straus A Few Very Special POWs The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II https://archive.org/details/anguishofsurrend0000stra/ Seattle w:University of Washington Press 0-295-98336-1 2003053379 249398072 160 https://archive.org/details/anguishofsurrend0000stra/page/160/ Okino was still recuperating from the amputation of a leg when he received a letter from the senior Japanese officer in An-ch’ing (now Anqing), a city on the Yangtze River and the site of the nearest major Japanese base.
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en 1952 Anking or An-ch’ing Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 74 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/74/ 3
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