An-shan
See also: Anshan
English
Map including 鞍山 AN-SHAN (AMS, 1956) (bottom center)
Etymology
From Mandarin 鞍山 (Ānshān) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-shan¹.[1][2]
Pronunciation
- enPR: änʹshänʹ
Proper noun
An-shan
- Alternative form of Anshan
- 1975, An-shan (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities), Central Intelligence Agency, page 3:
- An-shan was occupied in 1945 by the Soviet Army, which immediately began the systematic dismantling and removal of power-generating and transforming equipment, electric motors, the newest and best machine tools, experimental plants, laboratories, and hospitals.
- 1989, Dolores Zen, transl., Last Chance in Manchuria, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, LCCN 88-8352, OCLC 1051305054, page 41:
- His example was the Chinese side agreeing to joint enterprise management of mines whose output was small "and their equipment, inadequate" but omitting the giant An-shan iron mine, which was tantamount "to refusing to manage jointly with the Soviet Union the iron and steel enterprises of the Northeast."
- 1997, Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, LCCN 96-47472, OCLC 929878389, page 54:
- Some seventy miles to the west at a place called An-shan, General Chin Chʻang, the overall commander of Chinese forces in southern Manchuria, built up a force estimated at 50,000 while sending thousands more to fight as guerrillas along the railroad. They were ordered to do as much damage as possible before falling back toward An-shan, drawing the Russians with them.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-shan.
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Translations
Anshan — see Anshan
References
- Anshan, Wade-Giles romanization An-shan, in Encyclopædia Britannica
- “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, LCCN 79-42627, OCLC 781411242, page 476: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […]
An-shan (Anshan) 鞍山”
Further reading
- “An-shan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
Anagrams
- Hanans, Hannas, Nan-sha, Nansha, Shanna