Meaning of Ch'ing-hai | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The Yellow River (黃河) rises in small lakes in the southern part of Ch'ing-hai (青海) and flows in a very crooked channel toward the north-east to Lan-chou Fu (蘭州府).”

“Leaving this town and the Sining River valley the road ascends a grassy valley with some recently started cultivation to a pass⟳, 10,780 feet, over the Jih-yüeh Shan range, 27 miles from Tangar. This is the boundary between the Kansu and Ch'ing-hai Provinces. It is also the real boundary between China and Tibet, though the present⟳ frontier is the Tang-la Range, running east and west, the divide⟳ between the Salween and Mekong rivers.”

“In the west, the outer periphery of the Inner Zone is the great divide⟳ separating Pacific Ocean and South China Sea drainage on the one hand, from drainage oriented towards Hsin-chiang in the northwest and towards the Indian Ocean in the southwest, on the other. This divide⟳ also represents a fairly pronounced stress⟳ zone between the tenuous power China has been able to maintain⟳ over Tibet to the west and the firmer control⟳ she has been able to exercise over Hsi-k'ang and Ch'ing-hai to the east.”

“For centuries the area of ethnic Tibet was divided into the following: Dbus and Gtsang (comprising central Tibet), Mnga’-ris, Khams, and A-mdo.[…]A-mdo, the northeastern part of ethnic Tibet, passed under Manchu control⟳ in 1724 following the suppression of a Mongol revolt against the throne. This area was officially incorporated into the Chinese provincial system as Ch’ing-hai Province in 1928.”

“The Yangtze River first formed millions of years ago, a by-product of continental drift. Although the process⟳ itself took many millennia, the Ch'ing-hai (Qinghai) Plateau, from which the Yangtze descends, rose from the Earth's crust some 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent and Eurasia crashed into one another, forming a single landmass.”

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