Changtang

English Alternative forms en Chang Tang Chang Thang Changthang Qangtang Etymology From en bo བྱང་ཐང. Pronunciation chängʹtängʹen 1952 Chang Tang or Chang Thang Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 370 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/370/ 2 Proper noun en geographic region ar/Tibet ; geographic region uterr/Ladakh A part of the high altitude Tibetan Plateau in western and northern Tibet extending into southeastern Ladakh, India. en November 22, 1853 H. Strachey Physical Geography of Western Tibet https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797948/ w:Royal Geographical Society 0266-6235 5548563726 22 https://archive.org/details/jstor-1797948/page/n28/ In elevation the lowest limit of Changtang may be reckoned about 13,800 feet, and the highest of Rong 14,300, the mean line of demarcation being 14,000 feet. en 1994 Catalogue of Chinese Publications in Tibetan Studies (1949-1991) https://archive.org/details/isbn_9787119000268/ 1st Beijing w:Foreign Languages Press 7-119-00026-8 36044292 252 https://archive.org/details/isbn_9787119000268/page/252/ 2 Written by two American professors of anthropology on the basis of their scientific study and investigation in Qangtang area, Tibet, for 10 months from 1986 to 1988: description of the way of life of the Tibetan herdsmen and their economy and life before and after the peaceful liberation, especially their economic and religious life since the implementation of reform and opening in 1979, proving that Chinese government’s special policies and flexible measures are favourable for Tibet’s economic development. on en 2002 w:Michel Peissel Tibet: The Secret Continent https://archive.org/details/tibetsecretconti0000peis_k0q0/ w:Thomas Dunne Books 0-312-30953-8 441635958 33 https://archive.org/details/tibetsecretconti0000peis_k0q0/page/33/ Our path across the trackless Changtang was littered with the impressive skulls and horns of wild yaks slaughtered by the modern-day poachers of Tibet. Yielding close to a tonne of meat, it pays to shoot a wild yak — provided that you own a truck to take your kill to the closest village or town hundreds of miles away. Unfortunately, the number of truck-owning Tibetan and Chinese poachers in certain parts of the Changtang is increasing rapidly. en 2005 w:Nick Middleton Extremes Along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World's Oldest Superhighway https://archive.org/details/extremesalongsil0000midd/ John Murray (publishing house) John Murray 0-7195-6719-X 254154143 17173840M 131 https://archive.org/details/extremesalongsil0000midd/page/131/ We had climbed, almost imperceptibly, on to the Changtang, the name for the northern part of the Tibetan plateau, one of the most remote and least known regions of the world, as well as being one of the highest. Remote and unknown to outsiders, that is: the Changtang is also home to about half a million nomadic herders, or drokba. en December 3, 2021 Liesl Schillinger w:Sylvain Tesson Books That Satisfy Your Yearning for Far-Off Places w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20211203101033/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/books/review/travel-books.html 03 December 2021 0362-4331 1645522 Travel Observing Lake Yaniugol, rising high in the steppe, he writes: “It settled like a sacred host of jade upon the sand. It appeared to us at twilight, in the hollow of a ledge, flanked to the north by the sharp incisors of the Kunlun peaks soaring to 6,000 meters, and to the south by the Changtang. Behind this shimmering disk, the secret plateau.” Related terms en Changthangi Translations part of Tibetan Plateau Chinese: Cantonese: yue 羌塘 Mandarin: cmn 羌塘 Qiāngtáng Tibetan: bo བྱང་ཐང References Further reading en 1998 Qangtang Plateau or Zangbei Plateau Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2544 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2544/ 1