An-k'ang

ānkāng ànkāng Ankang English Etymology From en cmn ^安康, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: An¹-kʻang¹.Ankang, Wade-Giles romanization An-k’ang, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Ankang. en 3 May 1960 1956 November Shen Yu-chang The Geomorphology of the Han Shui Valley https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030162146&seq=43 Ti-li Hsueh Pao (Acta Geographica Sinica), Volume 22, No 4, November 1956, pages 295-322 [zh 地理學報] w:Joint Publications Research Service 38 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030162146&seq=89 The old town of An-k'ang, built on a river levee, often falls a victim to flood. en 1962 Notes on Translation Albert E. Dien Biography of Yü-wen Hu Chinese Dynastic Histories Translations https://archive.org/details/biographyofyuwen0000unse/ 9 w:University of California Press 186626988 100 https://archive.org/details/biographyofyuwen0000unse/page/100/ Shan-nan at this period seems to have referred tothe upper Han River valley, extending down river at least as far as An-k‘ang in Shensi; this may be inferred from cases of Shan-nan in CS 44.7b, 8a and 8b, and CS 33.16a. en 1967 w:Philip Yampolsky The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch https://archive.org/details/platformsutraofs0000huin/ New York w:Columbia University Press 978-0-231-15957-9 2011019122 1023245840 24853630M 52–53, 185 https://archive.org/details/platformsutraofs0000huin/page/53/ Traditionally, the founder is given as Nan-yüeh Huai-jang (677-744),¹⁹⁰ who is known as a disciple of Hui-neng. Information about him is based on sources composed much later than his death; no mention is made of him in any eighth-century work, and with the last volume of the Pao-lin chuan missing, we cannot seek for material there. He is said to have been a native of An-k’ang in Chin-chou,¹⁹¹ and, after becoming a monk, to have studied under Hui-an, the disciple of the Fifth Patriarch, remarkable for the great age to which he attained.¹⁹¹ An-k’ang hsien, Shensi.An-k’ang; Ankang; zh 安康 en 1980 James Chan C. K. Leung; Norton Ginsburg China: Urbanization and National Development https://archive.org/details/chinaurbanizatio0000unse/ 0-89065-103-5 80-29142 7175420 16 https://archive.org/details/chinaurbanizatio0000unse/page/16/ During the period of the Fourth Five-Year Plan, 1971-75, the Chuchou-Kueiting line, which forms part of the east-west trunk line from Hangchou to K'unming, was completed, while other possible construction included the central segment of a line linking Peking with Yuanping, Shanhsi province, and lines linking Wuhan through Ank'ang, Shenhsi province, with Chungking, Ssuch'uan province, and with Luehyang on the Paochi-Chengtu line. on en 1986 w:Kwang-chih Chang The Archaeology of Ancient China https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofanc0000chan_k1i7/ 4th 0-300-03784-8 86-9186 13497036 155 https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofanc0000chan_k1i7/page/155/ Going west from here and upstream along the Han-shui River we encounter the An-k’ang and Han-chung districts of southern Shensi. In the An-k’ang district several sites were identified in the last decade, yielding mostly Li-chia-ts’un-type cord-marked pottery, with some mixture of Pan-p’o and Miao-ti-kou sherds. References Further reading Ankang, An-k'ang