Anyuan

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin 安源.

Proper noun

Anyuan

1. A district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China.
   • 1990, Mao Zedong, “Introduction”, in Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu‎^[1], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:

     Mao returned to Pingxiang County a year later, in the fall of 1921, and visited the Anyuan district. In an attempt to organize the miners in this area on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, Mao spent a week in the fall of 1921 investigating the lives of miners and their families.

   • 2016 April 11, Hannah Beech, “Labor Unrest Grows in China, Even in the Historic Heartlands of Revolution”, in Time‎^[2], archived from the original on 12 April 2016‎^[3]:

     The city of Pingxiang, which includes the Anyuan district of Mao fame, is home to eight state-run coal mines.

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 安源

  Mandarin: 安源 (zh)