Meanings
- historicalAnxi, a historical department in Gansu, China, whose capital is located in present-day Guazhou County, known as Anxi County until 2006.
The line starts from Ansichow westward to Tunhwang, and skirts the southern edge of the Lobnor Swamp to Chochiang.
1922, Sun Yat-sen, The International Development of China, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 1392 more examples
Chinese annals and no doubt later-day official correspondence describe such miserable, old-world town as Ansichow as a miniature Peking. And Ansichow is the first Chinese town in China proper from which traveller ignorant of the country gets his initial impression of it.
1912 September 7, “Cities of Old Cathay”, in North China Herald, volume CIV, number 2352, page 672The southern margin is marked by sand-buried cities, now desolate but formerly the site of extensive settlements which were connected by a road from Yarkand through Khotan to Ansichow.
1934, George Babcock Cressey, China's Geographic Foundations: A Survey of the Land and Its People, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., page 268
Origin
Borrowed from Mandarin 安西州.
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