Ch'ing-hai

Chinghai English Etymology From en cmn 青海//靑海 Qīnghǎi en cmn-wadegiles -Qinghai, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’ing-hai, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen Brian Hook 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 81-9927 781411242 476, 477 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/477/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Ch'ing-hai (Qinghai) zh 靑海en 1998 Blunden Caroline Gazetteer Cultural Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/ Revised Facts on File 0-8160-3814-7 98-34322 43168341 232, 235 https://archive.org/details/culturalatlasofc00blun_0/page/235/ Names in italics represent the Wade-Giles equivalent of the preceding Pinyin transcription.Qinghai (l)/Ch'ing-hai/Koko Nor romanization: Chʻing¹-hai³.en December 10, 1943 Additional Terms Chinese Phrase Book TM 30-633 https://books.google.com/books?id=HjVkAAAAMAAJ Washington, D. C. w:United States War Department 9030056 226, 227 https://books.google.com/books?id=HjVkAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA227 1, 6 English PronunciationWade System Chinese WritingTsinghai CHING haˇEEchʻing¹ hai³ zh 靑海 Proper noun 1 1 en Qinghai. en 1904 w:Charles Daniel Tenney Geography of Asia https://archive.org/details/geographyasia00tenngoog/ London w:Macmillan and Co. 182639088 5 https://archive.org/details/geographyasia00tenngoog/page/n26/ The Yellow River (zh 黃河) rises in small lakes in the southern part of Ch'ing-hai (zh 青海) and flows in a very crooked channel toward the north-east to Lan-chou Fu (zh 蘭州府). en 1925 w:Francis Younghusband Peking to Lhasa https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43818/ London w:Constable and Company 715982151 112 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.43818/page/n142/ Leaving this town and the Sining River valley the road ascends a grassy valley with some recently started cultivation to a pass, 10,780 feet, over the Jih-yüeh Shan range, 27 miles from Tangar. This is the boundary between the Kansu and Ch'ing-hai Provinces. It is also the real boundary between China and Tibet, though the present frontier is the Tang-la Range, running east and west, the divide between the Salween and Mekong rivers. en 1970 Joseph B. R. Whitney China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building https://archive.org/details/chinaareaadminis0000whit/ Department of Geography, University of Chicago 75-104876 905626536 38 https://archive.org/details/chinaareaadminis0000whit/page/38/ In the west, the outer periphery of the Inner Zone is the great divide separating Pacific Ocean and South China Sea drainage on the one hand, from drainage oriented towards Hsin-chiang in the northwest and towards the Indian Ocean in the southwest, on the other. This divide also represents a fairly pronounced stress zone between the tenuous power China has been able to maintain over Tibet to the west and the firmer control she has been able to exercise over Hsi-k'ang and Ch'ing-hai to the east. en 1972 T. V. W. TIBET w:Encyclopedia Britannica https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri21chic/ 21 0-85229-162-0 77-149817 243587 1108 https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri21chic/page/n1279/ 2 For centuries the area of ethnic Tibet was divided into the following: Dbus and Gtsang (comprising central Tibet), Mnga’-ris, Khams, and A-mdo.A-mdo, the northeastern part of ethnic Tibet, passed under Manchu control in 1724 following the suppression of a Mongol revolt against the throne. This area was officially incorporated into the Chinese provincial system as Ch’ing-hai Province in 1928. en 2007 Laurie Burnham Rivers The Extreme Earth https://archive.org/details/rivers0000burn/ w:Chelsea House 978-0-8160-5916-4 2006031302 71800578 45 https://archive.org/details/rivers0000burn/page/45/ The Yangtze River first formed millions of years ago, a by-product of continental drift. Although the process itself took many millennia, the Ch'ing-hai (Qinghai) Plateau, from which the Yangtze descends, rose from the Earth's crust some 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent and Eurasia crashed into one another, forming a single landmass. Translations Qinghai References Further reading Ch'ing-hai Ch'ing-hai Ch'ing-hai