Guang'an

alternative Kuang-an

1. A prefecture-level city of Sichuan, China.

   A native of Kuangan, Szechwan, Yang Sen was born into a scholarly family of landowners.

   楊森

   [1971, “Yang Sen [楊森]”, in Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, volume IV, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2

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   TENG HSIAO-PING was born in Hsieh-hsing village, Kuang-an county, some 100 km. from Chungking, Szechwan province in 1904.

   [1978, Chi Hsin (research group), Teng Hsiao-ping: A Political Biography, Hong Kong: Cosmos Books, →OCLC, page 3

   They lived in Paifang, a village a few miles from Guang'an, a county town - seat of an imperial magistrate - in the eastern part of the province.

   1993, Richard Evans, “Farmer's Son, 1904-20”, in Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China, Viking Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 1

   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.

   [2007 August 13, en, “China sentences 11 who protested boy's death at hospital”, in The New York Times (Asia Pacific section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023

   Guangan city, also in Sichuan, faced the most severe floods since 1847, the official Xinhua agency said.

   [2010 July 20, “China floods claim more lives”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, Alex Richardson, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 29 May 2022, World News