An-yang

See also: anyang, ānyǎng, Anyang, and Ānyáng

English

Map including AN-YANG (DMA, 1975)

Etymology

From Mandarin 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-yang².[1][2]

Proper noun

An-yang

Alternative form of Anyang
- 1939, C. G. Seligman, “The Roman Orient and the Far East”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution‎, Government Printing Office, page 549:
  There exist specimens from An-yang, the capital of the later kings of that dynasty, which can only be dated to that period of bronze decoration to which Professor Yetts has applied the term "First Phase," historically the latter part of the Shang-Yin and early part of the Chou dynasties (Antiquity, vol. 12, 1938).
- 1969, Rutherford John Gettens, The Freer Chinese Bronzes‎, volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Meriden Gravure Company, →ISBN, OCLC 311989762, page 16:
  Barnard, basing his researches on former investigations of Orvar Karlbeck, Shih Chang-ju, and others and on recent Chinese mainland archaeological reports, has dealt with early Chinese furnaces, crucibles, and ingot molds discovered at An-yang and other early sites in China.
- 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China‎, Yale University Press, published 1976, →ISBN, LCCN 68-24780, OCLC 308337, page 12:
  Fieldwork was resumed soon after the establishment of the communist regime in 1949, and during the following eighteen years archaeology in all its phases of operation flourished in China as never before. With a few notable exceptions- Chou-k'ou-tien and An-yang, among others- the bulk of the most important archaeological material for the ancient period has been uncovererd during this interval as must be clear from a scrutiny of the footnotes of this book.
- 2008, Theron Douglas Price, Images of the Past‎, 5th edition, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, LCCN 2006048201, OCLC 69992737, page 433:
  By early in the second millennium B.C., states had developed indigenously in North China. An-yang, the last capital of the Shang dynasty, was excavated first in the later 1920s and remains one of the best-known early Chinese cities.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-yang.

Translations

Anyang — see Anyang

References

Anyang, Wade-Giles romanization An-yang, 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-yang (Anyang) 安陽”