Hsi-ning

Hsining English thumb|Map including HSI-NING (Defense Mapping Agency DMA, 1975) Etymology From en cmn 西寧, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsi¹-ning².Xining, Wade-Giles romanization Hsi-ning, in Encyclopædia Britannica Pronunciation shēʹnĭngʹ Proper noun 1 1 en Xining. en 1894 https://archive.org/details/diaryofjourneyth00rock/ Diary of a Journey Through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892 w:William Woodville Rockhill w:Smithsonian Institution 602214708 24661216M 188 https://archive.org/details/diaryofjourneyth00rock/page/188/ When we had finished tea the Jalang put on a portentously solemn expression and said that it was reported that a dispatch had reached Taichinār Dzassak viâ Korluk from the Hsi-ning Amban, by which all the chiefs of the Ts'aidam were forbidden to supply guides, ponies provisions or camels to a certain foreigner with a Pekinese cook and several Hsi-ning followers, who was desirous of going to Tibet. en 1973 Chiao-min Hsieh ATLAS OF CHINA https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/ McGraw-Hill, Inc. 0-07-030628-1 72-8717 1204247698 9249878M 74 https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/page/74/ A highway also connects Lan-chou with Hsi-ning in Tsinghai Province. The Tsinghai-Tibet Highway further stretches 2,100 kilometers from Hsi-ning through Ko-erh-mu across the Kunlun Mountains to Lhasa, making Ko-erh-mu the new highway center of Kansu, Sinkiang, and Tibet. en 1982 w:Alexandra David-Neel; Aphur Yongden Janwillem van de Wetering The Power of Nothingness https://archive.org/details/powerofnothingne00davi/ w:Houghton Mifflin Company 0-395-31557-3 81-23737 8171056 35 https://archive.org/details/powerofnothingne00davi/page/35/ Hsi-ning, to a simple herdsman, is a metropolis of enormous proportions. Munpa had visited Hsi-ning before, and now again he felt lost in its crowded streets, and gaped at the impossible variety of articles displayed in the stores. en 1998 Jane Hoehner Explorers & Discoverers https://archive.org/details/explorersdiscove00pear/ 6 0-7876-2946-4 95-166826 31595978 71 https://archive.org/details/explorersdiscove00pear/page/71/ They followed an ancient caravan route that took them west along the Great Wall of China to the Yellow River and Hsi-ning (now Xining), at that time the westernmost city of China. Translations Xining References Further reading Anagrams en ghiinns shining