Anyuan

English

Etymology

From the Mandarin 安源.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: änʹyüǎnʹ[1]

Proper noun

Anyuan

  1. A district of Pingxiang, Jiangxi, China.
    • 1990, Mao Zedong, “Introduction”, in Roger Thompson, transl., Report from Xunwu[2], Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 24:
      Mao returned to Pingxiang County a year later, in the fall of 1921, and visited the Anyuan district. In an attempt to organize the miners in this area on the Hunan-Jiangxi border, Mao spent a week in the fall of 1921 investigating the lives of miners and their families.
    • 2016 April 11, Hannah Beech, “Labor Unrest Grows in China, Even in the Historic Heartlands of Revolution”, in Time[3], archived from the original on 12 April 2016[4]:
      The city of Pingxiang, which includes the Anyuan district of Mao fame, is home to eight state-run coal mines.

Translations

References

  1. ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Anyüan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[1], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 81, column 2