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.

Proper noun

An-yang

1. 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^[2], 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^[3], volume 2, Washington, D.C.: Meriden Gravure Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, 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^[4], Yale University Press, published 1976, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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.

   • 2002 December 1, Dick Teresi, “'Lost Discoveries'”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-08-08‎^[6]:

     During the following decades the bones were traced to a field near An-yang, around three hundred miles southwest of Beijing. During the 1920s and '30s, some twenty-five thousand oracle bones were excavated there, from what may have been a palace archive.

   • 2008, Theron Douglas Price, Images of the Past‎^[7], 5th edition, McGraw Hill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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

Further reading

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