Chinese Tartary

English Etymology From en Chinese Tartary. Proper noun Regions ruled by the Qing outside China proper. en 1832 Charles Lyell Charles Lyell VI Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation II https://archive.org/details/PrinciplesgeoloVol2Lyel/ London John Murray 934484843 94 https://archive.org/details/PrinciplesgeoloVol2Lyel/page/94/ The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England. en April 10, 1983 R.V. Denenberg THE PAST SEEN IN A WORLD OF MAPS w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20150524135744/https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/10/travel/the-past-seen-in-a-world-of-maps.html 24 May 2015 https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/10/travel/the-past-seen-in-a-world-of-maps.html 0362-4331 1645522 Travel For eccentric charm and historic patina few purchasable antiques rival early maps. Even if you cannot tell Mercator's projection from anyone else's, you can appreciate these oddly distorted but touchingly sincere portraits of the earth as viewed from another age. Once-imagined islands, extinct peoples and lost cities from the New World to Chinese Tartary reappear in vividly colored engravings, embellished with trumpeting cherubs and snorting sea monsters. en 10 March 2024 Peter Neville-Hadley How European maps of China helped paint a picture of the Middle Kingdom during the age of exploration w:South China Morning Post https://web.archive.org/web/20240310094329/https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3254720/how-european-maps-china-helped-paint-picture-middle-kingdom-during-age-exploration https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3254720/how-european-maps-china-helped-paint-picture-middle-kingdom-during-age-exploration March 10, 2024 1563-9371 648902513 History D’Anville’s overall map of China is claimed to be the most comprehensive to date, including both Tibet and Chinese Tartary (Manchuria and Mongolia), as well as territory as far west as the Caspian Sea. Further reading Chinese Tartary en Places in China