Yatung

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Synonym of Shasima (Sharsingma; Xarsingma; a town and the administrative headquarters of Yadong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China).

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Examples

“The Tibetans had encroached upon our territory in Sikkim, they had established a customs post⟳ at Giao-gong, fifteen miles inside the frontier, and had forbidden British subjects to pass⟳ their outposts there; they had thrown down the boundary pillars which had been set⟳ up along the undisputed water-shed between the Tista and the Ammo chu. They had insulted the treaty rights of the British by building a wall across the only road from Tibet to the market of Yatung, which had been thrown open⟳ to trade⟳ with India by the stipulations of the Convention of 1890-3; more than this, they returned unopened letters sent by the Viceroy to the Grand Lama in Lhasa.”

“In spite of a further trade⟳ agreement on December 5, 1893, between Great Britain and China, which was nominally accepted by Tibet, providing for a trade⟳ mart at Yatung (in Tibet just beyond the Sikkim frontier) and for free trade⟳ (except in certain prohibited articles) for five years between Tibet and India, the Lhasa Government continued its policy of obstruction. The boundary pillars between Tibet and Sikkim were torn down, a wall built across the trade⟳ route to Yatung, and Tibetan merchants were forbidden to cross the border⟳. Yatung proved an impossible market-place; a ten per cent duty was levied at Phari on all goods that reached there; and letters of protestation from the Viceroy of India were returned unopened.”

“We have⟳ just arrived at Yatung, which the local people call⟳ Shasima, possibly a name⟳ of Lepcha origin. It seems that we shall stay⟳ here for some time. Does this mean⟳ an opportunity for travel⟳ of the second kind? Yatung is situated nearly 9,000 feet above sea level, at a point⟳ where the valley of the Amo-chu, up which the caravan route climbs in the direction of Lhasa, divides into two.”

“At Yatung, the question⟳ of whether the Dalai Lama should go into exile or come⟳ to terms with the Chinese became the subject of protracted debate⟳. In the end⟳ it was decided that he should return⟳ to Lhasa. An agreement establishing Chinese suzerainty over Tibet—but also containing provisions that purported to guarantee⟳ Tibetan regional autonomy and religious freedom—was signed at Peking on May 23, 1951. However, the Dalai Lama remained at Yatung until well into July, and did not enter⟳ Lhasa again until August 17.”

“British influence⟳ reached across the Himalayas, and was expressed in Tibet in the presence of a permanent British official in Lhasa, through whom Tibet could be said to be in quasi-diplomatic relations with Britain. The British also enjoyed the right to maintain⟳ small military escorts for their trade⟳ officers at Yatung and Gyantse, and had set⟳ up postal, telegraph and even telephone services linking the main trading centres in southern Tibet.”

“The total volume of small trading transactions between Yatung (Chomo) County in Tibet and Bhutan, a small country neighboring China on the southwest reached 220,000 yuan (RMB) in 1981.”

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