An-shan

From Mandarin 鞍山 (Ānshān) Wade–Giles romanization: An¹-shan¹.[1][2]

• enPR: änʹshänʹ

An-shan

1. Alternative form of Anshan
   • 1975, An-shan (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities)‎, Central Intelligence Agency, page 3:

     An-shan was occupied in 1945 by the Soviet Army, which immediately began the systematic dismantling and removal of power-generating and transforming equipment, electric motors, the newest and best machine tools, experimental plants, laboratories, and hospitals.

   • 1989, Dolores Zen, transl., Last Chance in Manchuria‎, Hoover Institution Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 41:

     His example was the Chinese side agreeing to joint enterprise management of mines whose output was small "and their equipment, inadequate" but omitting the giant An-shan iron mine, which was tantamount "to refusing to manage jointly with the Soviet Union the iron and steel enterprises of the Northeast."

   • 1997, Robert B. Edgerton, Warriors of the Rising Sun‎, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:

     Some seventy miles to the west at a place called An-shan, General Chin Chʻang, the overall commander of Chinese forces in southern Manchuria, built up a force estimated at 50,000 while sending thousands more to fight as guerrillas along the railroad. They were ordered to do as much damage as possible before falling back toward An-shan, drawing the Russians with them.

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