Siangtan

English Etymology From the en zh-postal - of en cmn - 湘潭. Pronunciation sē-ängʹtänʹ shē-ängʹtänʹ Proper noun en Xiangtan. en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46661/mode/2up 1907 Mark Tennien The Chinese Empire: A General & Missionary Survey Marshall Broomhall Morgan & Scott London 169 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.46661/page/n219/mode/ Steam navigation is in its infancy: four small 600-ton steamers ply between Hankow, Changsha, and Siangtan; and there are also perhaps a score of launches plying in and out of the province. en April 27, 1926 April 27, 1926 - Changsha Healing, Romance & Revolution https://archive.org/details/healingromancere0000unse/ 9781937454203 245 https://archive.org/details/healingromancere0000unse/page/54/ After returning from the long walk which was about ten miles, I had a note from Les Walker asking me to go riding, so after a short snooze I went with him out the wide military road toward Siangtan. I don’t know how far we went but it was great fun and a good evening. en 1927 William James Hail Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284652/ Yale History Press 1027538276 78 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284652/page/n97/ A small force was dispatched towards the city of Siangtan with instructions to circle around the hills and join the main body, which, on the night of November 30, crossed the river on a pontoon bridge and marched westward to Yiyang. Their simple ruse had sent the imperialists scurrying along the east bank to Siangtan, thus permitting the rebels to escape without molestation. They had beleaguered Changsha since the tenth of September. en https://archive.org/details/geographyofmanuf0000unse_p9k0/mode/2up 1962 A Geography of Manufacturing E. Willard Miller Prentice-Hall, Inc. 245 https://archive.org/details/geographyofmanuf0000unse_p9k0/page/244/mode/ In Hunan, the cities of Changsha, Chuchow, Siangtan, and Hengyang, located on the Hankow-Canton railroad or one of its major spurs, form a growing industrial district. Changsha is important in the processing of nonferrous metals, including antimony, lead and silver, and has long been noted for its handicrafts including embroidery and porcelain. Since 1949, Siangtan has become an industrial center, producing electrical goods, wire, machine tools, cement and chemicals. A cotton textile plant is also found in the city. Further reading Anagrams en aaginnst antisnag