1887, W. P. Groeneveldt, “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca”, in Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago[1], volume I, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 165:
" In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.
But the virile and untiring energies of Yehonala, ably supported by Jung Lu and other faithful followers, soon put a new complexion on affairs, and the situation was further modified in her favour by the success of her nominee, the Commander-in-Chief, T'seng Kuo-fan, in capturing the city of An-ch’ing (in Anhui) from the rebels, a victory that was regarded as of good augury to her cause.
In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing.
1996, Jacques Gernet, “Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, in A History of Chinese Civilization[4], 2nd edition, Cambridge History Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 629:
The men installed in the central provinces by Yüan Shih-k’ai when order was restored—Feng Kuo-chang at Nanking, Tuan Ch’i-jui at An-ch’ing (in Anhwei), Li Chun at Nan-ch’ang—were not slow to demonstrate in turn their own desire to be independent of their protector.
1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth[5], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 173:
Towns of lesser importance include An-ch'ing, the former provincial capital; Ma-an-shan; and Ta-t'ung.
Okino was still recuperating from the amputation of a leg when he received a letter from the senior Japanese officer in An-ch’ing (now Anqing), a city on the Yangtze River and the site of the nearest major Japanese base.
