Ansichow

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn - 安西州. Proper noun en historical Anxi, a historical department in Gansu, China, whose capital is located in present-day Guazhou County, known as Anxi County until 2006. en Cities of Old Cathay North China Herald 7 September 1912 CIV 2352 672 https://archive.org/details/north-china-herald-1912.09.07/page/672/mode/1up Chinese annals and no doubt later-day official correspondence describe such miserable, old-world town as Ansichow as a miniature Peking. And Ansichow is the first Chinese town in China proper from which traveller ignorant of the country gets his initial impression of it. en The International Development of China 1922 Sun Yat-sen G. P. Putnam's Sons 139 https://archive.org/details/developmentchina00suny/page/139/mode/1up The line starts from Ansichow westward to Tunhwang, and skirts the southern edge of the Lobnor Swamp to Chochiang. en China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People 1934 George Babcock Cressey McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 268 https://archive.org/details/chinasgeographic0000geor/page/268/mode/1up The southern margin is marked by sand-buried cities, now desolate but formerly the site of extensive settlements which were connected by a road from Yarkand through Khotan to Ansichow.