P'ien-kuan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Mandarin 偏關／偏关 (Piānguān) Wade–Giles romanization: Pʻien¹-kuan¹.
Proper noun[edit]
P'ien-kuan
- Alternative form of Pianguan
- 1968, Kwang-chih Chang, The Archaeology of Ancient China[1], Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 162:
- The Ordos area in northern Shensi and southern Suiyüan is famous for its Upper Palaeolithic industries, and recent discoveries in the neighborhood of P’ien-kuan Hsien in northwestern Shansi and Ch’ing-shui-ho Hsien in southern Suiyüan appear to indicate Mesolithic assemblages characterized by microblade artifacts and points and scrapers made on “Mousterian” flakes, features resembling the Sha-yüan assemblage of the lower Weishui Valley in central Shensi.
- 1988, Robin D. S. Yates, “Selected Translations”, in Washing Silk: The Life and Selected Poetry of Wei Chuang (834?-910)[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
- Kuan River flows outside the south gate of P’ien-kuan county, Shansi; it flows west from its source, Wu-mien-ching-pao, into the Yellow River.
- 1990, Arthur Waldron, The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 158:
- In Han and T’ang times, he pointed out, when the capital had been at Hsi-an, dynasties had been particularly concerned with the northwest: P’ien-kuan and Shuo-fang.
Further reading[edit]
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Pienkwan or P’ien-kuan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1471, column 1