Citations:Ch'ang-an

English citations of Ch'ang-an

• 1964, Harold Jacob Wiens, “CH’ANG-AN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica‎^[1], volume 5, →OCLC, page 266, column 2:

  CH’ANG-AN, an alternate name for Hsi-an (Sian) city, China, and for a district in which the city at times has been situated. Another name for Ch’ang-an Hsien (district) seat, a few miles south of Hsi-an, is Wei-ch’ü (sometimes erroneously Wangch’ü or Wangkü). China's capital during many dynasties from the Han to the T’ang was located in Ch’ang-an Hsien. See SIAN.

• 1967, Edward H. Schafer, The Vermilion Bird‎^[2], University of California Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:

  This rather leisurely journey, consuming almost six months, should be contrasted with Liu Tsung-yüan's trip into exile in 815- it took him a little more than three months to reach Liu-chou in Lingnan from Ch'ang-an.

• 1968, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China 1936-1945‎^[3], 2nd printing, page 7:

  If our spirit is high in Ch'ang-an (Sian), then Chiang will send the Young Marshal back to us.

• 1978, Hsia Chih-yen, translated by Liang-lao Dee, The Coldest Winter in Peking‎^[4], Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 218:

  They calmly kept watch. On the mountain path that wound around from the distant hills to the right, there was no movement. The pass was as flat as Ch'ang-an Avenue in Peking.

• 1993, Eleanor Cooney, Daniel Altieri, Deception‎^[5], New York: Avon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 109:

  As a youth, he had had an uncle, a much younger half brother of his mother, who occasionally took him on exploratory adventures in their home city of Ch'ang-an.

• 2009, Bill Porter, “No Work, No Food”, in Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China‎^[6], Counterpoint Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 191:

  Although Tao-hsin didn’t travel to the capitals of Loyang or Ch’ang-an, he did travel to Nanching on at least one occasion. According to an account in a number of early Zen annals, one day when Tao-hsin was in Emperor Wu’s old capital, he happened to notice the sky above Oxhead Mountain south of the city.