Kangting

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 康定 (Kāngdìng).

Pronunciation

• enPR: kängʹdǐngʹ

Proper noun

Kangting

1. Dated form of Kangding.
   • 1943, Hubert Freyn, Free China's New Deal‎^[1], New York: The Macmillan Company, page 62:

     The drive westward, regardless of towering mountain ranges, brought the opening late in 1940 of the 133-mile section of the Szechwan-Sikang highway from Yaan to Kangting (Tachienlu), which, together with the 93-mile stretch Chengtu-Yaan (completed by the Szechwan provincial authorities in 1934), established the first motor route from Szechwan to Sikang.

   • 1956, André Migot, translated by Peter Fleming, Tibetan Marches‎^[2], London: Readers Union, →OCLC, page 57:

     Ya-an is the main market for a special kind of tea which is grown in this part of the country and exported in very large quantities to Tibet via Kangting and over the caravan routes through Batang to Degre.

   • 1963, A. Doak Barnett, China on the Eve of Communist Takeover‎^[3], Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 225:

     Interracial relations in Sikang are by no means entirely hostile, however. In Kangting, Chinese and Tibetans get along quite well, and there is a good deal of intermarriage. In the Sichang region, there is intermarriage between Chinese and Lolos. In both these areas, there are groups of non-Chinese who have been Sinicized. Furthermore, Liu Wen-hui currently seems to be pursuing a conciliatory policy toward the Tibetans and Lolos.

   • 1976, Pradyumna P. Karan, The Changing Face of Tibet: The Impact of Chinese Communist Ideology on the Landscape‎^[4], Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:

     Despite the Khampas’ efforts, between 1933 and 1949 the town of Chamdo and the entire area west of the Yangtze remained under the rule of governors appointed by Lhasa, and the border town of Kangting continued under Chinese rule.