P'ien-kuan

English Etymology From en cmn 偏關 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Pʻien¹-kuan¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Pianguan. en 1968 w:Kwang-chih Chang The Archaeology of Ancient China https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofanc00chan/ w:Yale University Press 0-300-01458-9 68-24780 308337 162 https://archive.org/details/archaeologyofanc00chan/page/162/ The Ordos area in northern Shensi and southern Suiyüan is famous for its Upper Palaeolithic industries, and recent discoveries in the neighborhood of P’ien-kuan Hsien in northwestern Shansi and Ch’ing-shui-ho Hsien in southern Suiyüan appear to indicate Mesolithic assemblages characterized by microblade artifacts and points and scrapers made on “Mousterian” flakes, features resembling the Sha-yüan assemblage of the lower Weishui Valley in central Shensi. en 1988 Robin D. S. Yates Selected Translations Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Zhuang Wei Chuang (834?-910) https://archive.org/details/washingsilklifes0000yate/ w:Harvard University Press 0-674-94775-4 87-29642 924980345 2399586M 68 https://archive.org/details/washingsilklifes0000yate/page/68/ Kuan River flows outside the south gate of P’ien-kuan county, Shansi; it flows west from its source, Wu-mien-ching-pao, into the Yellow River. en 1990 w:Arthur Waldron The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00wald/ w:Cambridge University Press 0-521-36518-X 88-32689 243442537 2054642M 158 https://archive.org/details/greatwallofchina00wald/page/158/ In Han and T’ang times, he pointed out, when the capital had been at Hsi-an, dynasties had been particularly concerned with the northwest: P’ien-kuan and Shuo-fang. Further reading en 1952 Pienkwan or P’ien-kuan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1471 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1471/ 1