An-ch'ing

“In the year 1460 the king Tu-ma-pan (Tumapel?)† sent envoys to carry tribute. When these envoys went back, and had arrived at An-ch’ing,‡ they got drunk and had a fight with foreign priests who came to bring tribute, and of whom six were killed.

1887, W. P. Groeneveldt, “Notes on the Malay Archipelago and Malacca”, in Reinhold Rost, editor, Miscellaneous Papers Relating to Indo-China and the Indian Archipelago, volume I, London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC, page 165

But the virile and untiring energies of Yehonala, ably supported by Jung Lu and other faithful followers, soon put a new complexion on affairs, and the situation was further modified in her favour by the success of her nominee, the Commander-in-Chief, Tseng Kuo-fan, in capturing the city of An-ch’ing (in Anhui) from the rebels, a victory that was regarded as of good augury to her cause.

1910, J. O. P. Bland, E. Backhouse, China Under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia; London: J. B. Lippincott Company; William Heinemann, →OCLC, →OL, page 37

In contrast, Chiu-chiang served primarily as an accumulation point for Kiangsi rice and as a stop for commercial transport on the Yangtze river between Wuhan and An-ch’ing.

1973, Gilbert Rozman, “Regional Variations in Cities”, in Urban Networks in Ch’ing China and Tokugawa Japan, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235

The men installed in the central provinces by Yüan Shih-k’ai when order was restored—Feng Kuo-chang at Nanking, Tuan Ch’i-jui at An-ch’ing (in Anhwei), Li Chun at Nan-ch’ang—were not slow to demonstrate in turn their own desire to be independent of their protector.

1996, Jacques Gernet, “Political Developments in the First Half of the Twentieth Century”, in A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 629

Okino was still recuperating from the amputation of a leg when he received a letter from the senior Japanese officer in An-ch’ing (now Anqing), a city on the Yangtze River and the site of the nearest major Japanese base.

2003, Ulrich Straus, “A Few Very Special POWs”, in The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II, Seattle: University of Washington Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 160