Kangting

English Etymology Borrowed from en cmn - 康定. Pronunciation kängʹdǐngʹ Proper noun en Kangding. en https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/page 1943 Free China's New Deal Hubert Freyn The Macmillan Company New York 62 https://archive.org/details/freechinasnewdea0000unse/page/62/mode/ The drive westward, regardless of towering mountain ranges, brought the opening late in 1940 of the 133-mile section of the Szechwan-Sikang highway from Yaan to Kangting (Tachienlu), which, together with the 93-mile stretch Chengtu-Yaan (completed by the Szechwan provincial authorities in 1934), established the first motor route from Szechwan to Sikang. en https://archive.org/details/tibetanmarches0000migo/ 1956 Tibetan Marches w:André Migot w:Peter Fleming London Readers Union 2328887 57 https://archive.org/details/tibetanmarches0000migo/page/57/ Ya-an is the main market for a special kind of tea which is grown in this part of the country and exported in very large quantities to Tibet via Kangting and over the caravan routes through Batang to Degre. en 1963 w:A. Doak Barnett China on the Eve of Communist Takeover https://archive.org/details/chinaoneveofcomm0000unse/ Frederick A. Praeger 63-10824 760408070 5880080M 225 https://archive.org/details/chinaoneveofcomm0000unse/page/224/ Interracial relations in Sikang are by no means entirely hostile, however. In Kangting, Chinese and Tibetans get along quite well, and there is a good deal of intermarriage. In the Sichang region, there is intermarriage between Chinese and Lolos. In both these areas, there are groups of non-Chinese who have been Sinicized. Furthermore, Liu Wen-hui currently seems to be pursuing a conciliatory policy toward the Tibetans and Lolos. en 1976 Pradyumna P. Karan The Changing Face of Tibet: The Impact of Chinese Communist Ideology on the Landscape https://archive.org/details/changingfaceofti0000kara/ Lexington, KY w:University Press of Kentucky 0-8131-1318-0 74-18935 695394369 9 https://archive.org/details/changingfaceofti0000kara/page/9/ Despite the Khampas’ efforts, between 1933 and 1949 the town of Chamdo and the entire area west of the Yangtze remained under the rule of governors appointed by Lhasa, and the border town of Kangting continued under Chinese rule.