China proper

China Proper English Alternative forms en China Proper Proper noun thumb|A map of China Proper, Manchuria, Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Tibet in 1944. China excluding Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, Tuva, and Xinjiang. en en October 20, 1798 1797 CALCULATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE. The Rural Magazine https://archive.org/details/sim_rural-magazine_1798-10-20_1_36/ Newark I 36 1073346974 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_rural-magazine_1798-10-20_1_36/page/n1/ Chowta-Zhin, who is ſaid to be a man of buſineſs and preciſion, and cautious of advancing facts, at the requeſt of Earl Macartney, delivered to him a ſtatement taken from one of the public officers in the capitol, of the inhabitants of the fifteen ancient provinces of China, or China proper, within the great wall ; according to which the number of inhabitants, taken by a regular enumeration, amounts to 333,000,000! en https://archive.org/details/foreigndevilsons0000hopk_p1x3/ 1980 Foreign Devils on the Silk Road w:Peter Hopkirk w:Oxford University Press 1984 0-87023-435-8 83-24092 10207988 156 https://archive.org/details/foreigndevilsons00hopk/page/156/ Tun-huang, which means 'Blazing Beacon', was thus the last caravan halt in China proper for travellers setting out along the old Silk Road. en 2018 Liangren Zhang; Dongju Zhang; Xiaohong Wu; Kai Wang; Guoke Chen; Hui Wang; Peng Wang Ancient mud-brick architecture of Northwest China w:Paléorient https://www.jstor.org/stable/26595358 44 1 10.3406/paleo.2018.5787 1957-701X 793454145 The site is located in the Hexi Corridor, a critical section of the Silk Road, and the multi-room layout of the buildings and the wheat/barley crops hint at dual directions of inspiration, but it is yet uncertain whether the Xichengyi community absorbed the mud-brick building technology from Central Asia. The microscopic and particle size analyses, however, confirm that the second type of mud-brick was ingeniously fused with the earth ramming technique from China proper. en 2020 Shiqi Liang Architecture and Geography of China Proper: Influence of Geography on the Diversity of Chinese Traditional Architectural Motifs and the Cultural Values They Reflect Culture, Society, and Praxis https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/csp/vol12/iss1/3/ 12 1 1544-3159 909881657 1, 2 To accommodate a fast growing urban population, real estate developers favor tall, rectangular, concrete apartment buildings over traditional Chinese architectures. The buildings in northern cities no longer look distinguishable from buildings in southern cities. Revisiting those diverse architectural motifs serves as a reminder of how diverse China proper really is.[...]East of the thick red lines is a rough definition of China proper (Lin et al., 2015) Translations parts of China excluding outer frontiers Arabic: ar ٱلصِّينُ ٱلدَّاخِلِيَّةُ Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 中國本部 Zhōngguó běnbù dated, cmn 中國本土 Zhōngguó běntǔ not commonly understood, cmn 漢地 hàndì, cmn 內地十八省 nèidì shíbā shěng Qing dynasty Finnish: fi Varsinainen Kiina French: fr Chine propre f Japanese: ja 中国本土 ちゅうごくほんど, Chūgoku hondo Polish: pl Chiny nv-p Portuguese: pt China Interior f, pt Dezoito Províncias f, pt China propriamente dita f Russian: ru вну́тренний Кита́й m, ru коренно́й Кита́й m Spanish: es China histórica f Swahili: sw Uchina ya Kiasili, sw Uchina Halisi Swedish: sv Egentliga Kina n, sv Inre kina n See also en mainland China Further reading en terms where the adjective follows the noun en China