An-Yang

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Etymology

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From Mandarin 安陽安阳 (Ānyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-Yang².

Proper noun

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An-Yang

  1. Alternative form of Anyang
    • 1934, “Postscript”, in Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities[1], number 6, Stockholm, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 136:
      There are An-Yang bronzes with inlays of turquoise, and many vessels reported to have come from An-Yang have the deeper parts of the pattern filled with a black, probably bituminous substance which may have served as a kind of inlay purposed to emphasize the details of the design.
    • 1954 November, Helen Comstock, “The Connoisseur in America”, in The Connoisseur[2], volume CXXXIV, number 540, →OCLC, page 220:
      This broad yu came from An-Yang, the final capital of the Yin (also called Shang) Dynasty, which ruled from about 1525 to 1028 B.C., according to the revised conclusions of Dr. Bernhard Karlgren and other scholars.
    • 1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art[3], New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 1:
      In addition to glazed ceramics we have, for the first time, actual remnants of wood — not simply imprints in the earth like those found at An-Yang.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:An-Yang.

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