Meaning of Hsi-ning | Babel Free

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“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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