K'un-lun

Kunlun Kūnlún English Etymology From en cmn 崑崙, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Kʻun¹-lun².Mountains Kunlun Mountains, (Wade-Giles romanization) K’un-lun Shan, in Encyclopædia Britannica Proper noun 1 1 en Kunlun. en 1923 https://archive.org/details/1923MemoirOnMapsOfChineseTurkistanBySteinS/ Memoir on Maps of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu from the Surveys Made during Sir Aurel Stein's Explorations w:Aurel Stein Trigonometrical Survey Office Dehra Dun 41 On the south this hunge drainageless area is bordered throughout by the northernmost chain of the mighty mountain system of the K'un-lun and by the spurs it sends down toward the plains. en 31 May 1966 11 March 1966 Managing Water Conservancy Through 500,000,000 Peasants Translations on Communist China's Food and Agriculture https://books.google.com/books?id=6L0VAAAAMAAJ 102 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030774700&seq=783 w:United States Joint Publications Research Service Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao (People's Daily), page 2 zh 0270-6164 3200580 16 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015030774700&seq=803 The Ho-t'ien Special District in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang, lying north of the K'un-lun Mountain and south of the T'a-k'o-la-ma-kan Desert, suffered regularly before the liberation from the menace of drought and sand storm. Agricultural production was very backward. In 1958, the peasants of the whole district, relying on the great power of the people's communes and showing their spirit of self-reliance, used pebbles to build dikes which channeled the melted snow from the K'un-lun Mountain for irrigation. en 2001 November/December Murray Eiland Quentin Williams All That Is Green Is Not Jade Minerva https://archive.org/details/minerva-february-1990/MINERVA%20November%3ADecember%202001/ 12 6 0957-7718 21732204 45 https://archive.org/details/minerva-february-1990/MINERVA%20November%3ADecember%202001/page/45/ 2 This city lies in an oasis in the Taklamakan Desert, a region which can be characterised by a near-lunar landscape where little life is found. The city lies at the foot of the K’un-lun mountains and jade is collected from two rivers, the Kara-kash and the Yurung-kash, meaning ‘Black Jade River’ and ‘White Jade River’ respectively. Translations Kunlun References