Definition of "Anking"
Anking
proper noun
Quotations
Plainly it was not the custom for a foreigner to travel down the Yangtze on a small boat, for no sooner was I nicely settled on the deck of a tug about to leave for Anking, ninety miles down the river, than a boatload of Chinese river police pulled alongside and requested to see my passport.
1922, Herold Speakman, Beyond Shanghai, The Abingdon Press, page 97
But Anhui as a whole was still far from conquered ; the Taipings remained in Anking and only small detachments of loyal troops were available for necessary attacks on a few specific localities.
1927, William James Hail, Tsêng Kuo Fan And The Taiping Rebellion: With a Short Sketch of His Later Career, Yale University Press, page 188