Tsing-hai

Tsing-hai

1. Alternative form of Qinghai.
   • 1901, Susie Carson Rijnhart, “Toward the Tibetan Capital”, in With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Border, and of a Journey into the Far Interior‎, Fleming H. Revell Company, →OCLC, page 196:

     However, our aid to the soldiers and other wounded during the rebellion, was so much appreciated, that we felt if any one could procure a passport from this man we were in a good position to do so. He was very friendly indeed, but said much as he would like to help us he had not the power to give us a passport, because our Chinese ones were only for the Sze Chuan and Kansu provinces, and advised us that the next passport we applied for at Shanghai or Pekin should be made out for Kansu and the Tsing-hai or Koko-nor, and upon it he could then give us one in Tibetan which would enable us to travel in safety.

   • 1906, J. MacGowan, The Imperial History of China‎, 2nd edition, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, →OCLC, page 534:

     K'ang Hi not only refused to listen to this request, but he also commanded him to retire from his territories and also from Tsing-hai, which he had unlawfully usurped.

   • , volume II, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 211:

     In 1512 the great headman of the Meng-gu (Mongols), I-bu-la, followed by the tribe A-rh-tʽu-sz’, after making himself master of Tsʽing hai (Kukenor), ravaged also Kʽü-sien, and destroyed the military administration there.]

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