Hsi-tsang

English Proper noun en Xizang (Tibet) en 1977 Gungwu Wang New Pressures for Change: Historical Background up to 1949 China and the World since 1949: The Impact of Independence, Modernity, and Revolution https://archive.org/details/chinaworldsince10000wang/ New York w:St. Martin's Press 0-312-13352-9 76-52810 3315443 11 https://archive.org/details/chinaworldsince10000wang/page/11/ All Chinese leaders were uncomfortable with the fait accompli that eventually produced the independent nation of Mongolia. If that were accepted, what of the Mongol lands in Western Manchuria and Inner Mongolia? What of the Turkic tribes of Sinkiang and, even more vexing, what of the Tibetans in the provinces of Hsi-tsang (Tibet), Hsi-k’ang (now absorbed into Tibet and Szechuan) and Ch’ing-hai (Chinghai)? en 1977 December Mo Prophet Slow boat to China Motor Boating & Sailing https://archive.org/details/sim_motor-boating_1977-12_140_6/ w:Hearst Corporation 140 6 0027-1799 137342560 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_motor-boating_1977-12_140_6/page/n5/ In “Electronic Navigators” (October) your Loran position readout on the artwork is given as +30° 17.2’ lat. and -90° 90.6’ long. If we accept the convention that plus latitudes are north of the equator and minus longitudes are east of Greenwich, this places the vessel in the Hsi-Tsang Tzu-Chih-Ch’u Province (Tibetan Autonomous Region) of China. In other words, about 285 miles northeast of Mt. Everest. Who is the skipper? Is there a load of paired animals aboard? What is the vessel’s LOA (in cubits)? Is it raining a lot there?Mo ProphetNazareth, Pa.Both the CIA and the National Council of Churches are investigating. en 1998 An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996 https://archive.org/details/encyclopedicdict0000jess/ w:Greenwood Press 0-313-28112-2 97-40852 611640458 734 https://archive.org/details/encyclopedicdict0000jess/page/734/ Tibet (Hsi-tsang Tzu-chih-chü). Today the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, the almost mythical country of Tibet is bordered by the Chinese province of Tsinghai on the northeast, Szechwan on the east, Yunnan on the southeast, Nepal, Bhutan and Burma (Myanmar) on the south, Jammu and Kashmir (disputed by India) on the west, and the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region on the northwest. The capital is Lhasa. Translations Xizang Further reading Anagrams en aghinsst Hastings hastings stashing tingshas