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Anking

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Etymology

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From the Postal Romanization[1] of the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 安慶 / 安庆 (Ānqìng), from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.[2]

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Anking

  1. Dated form of Anqing.
    • 1913, Arthur R. Gray, Arthur M. Sherman, The Story of the Church in China[3], New York: The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, page 220:
      Adjoining the province of Kiangsu is the province of Anhui and in two of its river cities, Wuhu and Anking, we have centers of work.
    • 1922, Herold Speakman, Beyond Shanghai[4], The Abingdon Press, page 97:
      Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport.
    • 1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career[5], Yale University Press, →OCLC, page 188:
      But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities.
    • 1973, Yu-wen Jen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement[6], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 214–215:
      By autumn 1856, practically all the cities in North Anhwei had been lost to the Imperialists but T’ung-ch’eng, north of Anking.

References

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  1. ^ Index to the New Map of China (In English and Chinese).[1], Second edition, Shanghai: Far Eastern Geographical Establishment, 1915 March, →OCLC, page 1:The romanisation adopted is [] that used by the Chinese Post Office. [] Anking 安慶 Anhwei 安徽 30.32N 117.6 E
  2. ^ Kaske, Elisabeth (2008) The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919[2], Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →ISBN, page 52

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