Huai-nan

Huainan Huáinán English thumb|Map including HUAI-NAN (T'IEN-CHIA-AN) (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From en cmn 淮南, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Huai²-nan².Huainan, Wade Giles romanization Huai-nan, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Huainan. en https://archive.org/details/modernizationofc0000adsh/ 1970 The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, 1900-1920 S. A. M. Adshead w:Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts 0-674-58060-5 77-120315 805621059 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). en 1992 Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead Salt and Civilization https://archive.org/details/saltcivilization00adsh/ w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-06785-2 91-24862 932281424 84 https://archive.org/details/saltcivilization00adsh/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. en https://books.google.com/books?id=qDo3xBcsX-UC 1994 145–86 Sima Qian Ssu-ma Ch'ien William H. Nienhauser, Jr. William Nienhauser The Grand Scribe's Records 1 w:Indiana University Press 0-253-34021-7 94-18408 470507975 206 https://books.google.com/books?id=qDo3xBcsX-UC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206 When he reached Yin-ling zh 陰陵,²⁶⁵ he lost his way and asked an old farmer.[...]²⁶⁵ A county northwest of modern Ting-yüan zh 定遠 County in Anhwei (Wang Li-ch'i, 7:182n.) about 25 miles east of modern Huai-nan zh 淮南 City (see also T'an Ch'i-hsiang, 2:19). Translations Huainan References