Guang'an
English
Alternative forms
- Kuang-an (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 廣安 / 广安 (Guǎng'ān).
Pronunciation
- enPR: gwängʹänʹ[1]
Proper noun
Guang'an
- A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.
- [1971, “Yang Sen [楊森]”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China[2], 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[3], 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.]
- [2007 August 13, “China sentences 11 who protested boy's death at hospital”, in The New York Times[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 March 2023, Asia Pacific[6]:
- 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[7], archived from the original on 29 May 2022, World News[8]:
- Guangan city, also in Sichuan, faced the most severe floods since 1847, the official Xinhua agency said.]
Translations
prefecture-level city in China
References
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Kwangan or Kuang-an”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 997, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Guang'an”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1455, column 1