Chin-ch'uan

English thumb|Map including Chin-ch'uan (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) (in Gansu Province) (far left, center) Etymology From en cmn 金川 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chin¹-chʻuan¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Jinchuan (Gansu) en 1971 Paul Singer Early Chinese Gold & Silver https://books.google.com/books?id=8TnrAAAAMAAJ 2 217113 14 A magnificent find was reported in Wen Wu, 1966, 3, from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province. en 1993 Chinese Pen https://books.google.com/books?id=fmg5AAAAMAAJ 1811-6051 2694553 99 A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹ en 2002 Marylin Martin Rhie Early Buddhist Art of China and Central Asia https://books.google.com/books?id=OI_ug8E83DYC 2 9004114998 0169-9520 98-31898 40193480 xiii https://books.google.com/books?id=OI_ug8E83DYC&pg=RA1-SA2-PA6 Figs. 2.44a-c Dhyānāsana Buddha with mandorla, canopy and 4-footed stand, from Yü-tu hsiang, Chin-ch'uan hsien, eastern Kansu, gilt bronze, Phase II, Kansu sheng po-wu-kuan, Lan chou en en Jinchuan (Sichuan) en https://archive.org/details/notesonethnology00rock/ 1895 w:William Woodville Rockhill Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet Washington, D.C. w:Government Printing Office 249244166 694 https://archive.org/details/notesonethnology00rock/page/694/ The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-chʻuan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2. en 1954 Herold J. Wiens Tribal Uprisings Han Chinese Expansion in South China https://archive.org/details/hanchineseexpans0000wien/ Shoe String Press 1967 67-16409 473651484 24127509M 192 https://archive.org/details/hanchineseexpans0000wien/page/192/ The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently he was a marrying monk) multiplied and spread out to inhabit the drainage area of the Chin Ch'uan or Gold River. During the early Ch'ing period when feudatories were conferred by the Manchu rulers, this region was divided up into the Ta-chin-ch'uan or Great Gold River, and the Hsiao-chin-ch'uan or Little Gold River territories. en 1956 Chien-nung Li The Political History of China 1840-1928 https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory0000unse_n8j3/ w:D. Van Nostrand Company 56-12095 419920 7 https://archive.org/details/politicalhistory0000unse_n8j3/page/7/ He professed to have twice defeated the Sungars in Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, once suppressed the rebellion of Moslems in Turkestan, twice put down insurrections in the Chin-ch’uan region in western Szechwan, once pacified a rebellion in Taiwan (Formosa), subjugated Burma and Annam, and twice vanquished the Gurkhas. en 1978 Joseph Fletcher Ch’ing Inner Asia c. 1800 w:John K. Fairbank w:The Cambridge History of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory0000unse_u8v0/ 10 w:Cambridge University Press 0521214475 76-29852 2424772 94 https://archive.org/details/cambridgehistory0000unse_u8v0/page/94/ Even in easternmost Kham, adjacent to China proper, Ch’ing control was not easily maintained, especially in Chin-ch’uan (rGyal-rong), where the native Bon religion was stronger than in most parts of Tibet, and where the people spoke a Tibetan language that differed substantially from the dialects of Tibet proper. en 1992 Samuel Adrian Miles Adshead Salt and Civilization https://archive.org/details/saltcivilization00adsh/ w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-06785-2 91-24862 932281424 126 https://archive.org/details/saltcivilization00adsh/page/126/ Ch'ang-lu merchants subscribed[...]200 000 [taels] in 1748 to the suppression of the first Jinchuan campaigns Chin-ch'uan rebellion in the Tibetan borderlands;[....] en 2002 w:Jacques Gernet The Enlightened Despots A History of Chinese Civilisation https://archive.org/details/ahistoryofchines0002gern/ II w:The Folio Society 537997633 508 https://archive.org/details/ahistoryofchines0002gern/page/508/ The Ch’ing also had difficulties in the Chin-ch’uan, a very mountainous region in north-western Szechwan, where the local inhabitants, whose culture was Tibetan, rebelled from 1746-9 onwards. en 2006 C J Peers Late Imperial Chinese Armies 1520-1840 Soldiers of the Dragon: Chinese Armies 1500 BC—AD 1840 https://archive.org/details/soldiersofdragon0000peer/ w:Osprey Publishing 1-84603-098-6 64555763 226 https://archive.org/details/soldiersofdragon0000peer/page/226/ The revolt in Chin-ch’uan in Szechwan lasted intermittently for 30 years after 1746, and the campaign which finally suppressed it, in 1771—76, is said to have cost twice as much as the wars against the Jungars. en Translations Jinchuan