Guang'an

See also: guangan and guāngǎn

English

Alternative forms

• Kuang-an (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣安 / 广安 (Guǎng'ān).

Proper noun

Guang'an

1. A prefecture-level city in Sichuan, China.
   • [1971, “Yang Sen [楊森]”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China‎^[1], volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

     A native of Kuangan, Szechwan, Yang Sen was born into a scholarly family of landowners.]

   • [1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography‎^[2], Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 3:

     TENG HSIAO-PING was born in Hsieh-hsing village, Kuang-an county, some 100 km. from Chungking, Szechwan province in 1904.]

   • 1993, Richard Evans, “Farmer's Son, 1904-20”, in Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China‎^[3], Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1:

     They lived in Paifang, a village a few miles from Guang'an, a county town - seat of an imperial magistrate - in the eastern part of the province.

   • [2007 August 13, “China sentences 11 who protested boy's death at hospital”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 March 2023, Asia Pacific‎^[5]:

     At the time, a report from Xinhua, the official press agency, confirmed that a dispute over medical fees had arisen at the hospital in Guangan city in Sichuan Province. […]
     The authorities in Guangan said that the boy had died of poisoning after drinking pesticide and not because of a lack of treatment.]

   • [2010 July 20, “China floods claim more lives”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters‎^[6], archived from the original on 29 May 2022, World News‎^[7]:

     Guangan city, also in Sichuan, faced the most severe floods since 1847, the official Xinhua agency said.]

Translations

prefecture-level city in China

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣安 / 广安 (zh) (Guǎng'ān)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guang'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[8], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 1