An-Yang

See also: anyang, ānyǎng, Anyang, Ānyáng, and An-yang

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 安陽／安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-Yang².

Proper noun

An-Yang

1. Alternative form of Anyang
   • 1934, “Postscript”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities‎^[1], number 6, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 136:

     There are An-Yang bronzes with inlays of turquoise, and many vessels reported to have come from An-Yang have the deeper parts of the pattern filled with a black, probably bituminous substance which may have served as a kind of inlay purposed to emphasize the details of the design.

   • 1954 November, Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America”, in The Connoisseur‎^[2], volume CXXXIV, number 540, →OCLC, page 220:

     This broad yu came from An-Yang, the final capital of the Yin (also called Shang) Dynasty, which ruled from about 1525 to 1028 B.C., according to the revised conclusions of Dr. Bernhard Karlgren and other scholars.

   • 1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art‎^[3], New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 1:

     In addition to glazed ceramics we have, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like those found at An-Yang.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-Yang.

Translations

Anyang — see Anyang

Further reading

• “An-Yang, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.