Anshan

alternative An-shan

1. A prefecture-level city of Liaoning, in northeastern China.

   In old China industry was concentrated in the eastern part of the country. Nearly all the iron and steel enterprises were set up in the cities of Anshan, Penki, Talien, Tientsin and Shanghai, within 100 kilometres of the sea.

   A Concise Geography of China

   1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, →OL, page 52

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   South Manchuria Railway Co., Peking, China, perfecting plans for early construction new steel mill Anshan, Manchuria, for manufacture steel bars black sheets, railway sleepers, steel poles, and other iron and steel products used railroad construction and operation.

   1928 August 23, “Foreign”, in The Iron Age, volume 122, number 8, New York, page 508, column 3

   It appears a foregone conclusion that the National Government will take Harbin as soon as the Generalissimo gives the nod. Also, as the new 6th Army, one of the corps d'élite of Chinese forces, is now stationed in and around Anshan, a move on Antung appears likely and may have already begun.

   1946 September 27, John Leighton Stuart, The Ambassador in China (Stuart) to the Secretary of State (Foreign Relations of the United States 1946), Government Printing Office, page 235

   A dissident detained seven weeks ago in northeastern China has been charged with subversion, a human rights group reported Wednesday. Police in the town of Anshan in Liaoning province notified Wang Zechen’s family of the charges on Wednesday, according to the Information Center of Human Rights and Democracy in China.

   1999 July 14, “Report: Chinese Dissident Charged”, in AP News, archived from the original on 23 Jun 2022

   Women’s jails in China are filled with women who have injured or killed abusive husbands, according to the Anti-Domestic Violence Network, citing research by local women’s federations and scholars. Studies found such women represented 60 percent of inmates in one prison in Anshan, Liaoning Province, and 80 percent of women serving heavy sentences in a prison in Fuzhou, Fujian Province.

   2014 June 24, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Death Penalty Overturned for Wife Who Killed Abuser”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2023, Sinosphere

alternative Anzan

1. An ancient Elamite and later Achaemenid Persian city in modern-day Iran.