Tien Shan

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tē-ěnʹ shänʹ

Proper noun

Tien Shan

1. Alternative spelling of Tian Shan
   • [1851 June, Thomas Francis Wade, “The Army of the Chinese Empire”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[1], volume XX, number 6, Canton, page 336:

     In Ilí, the tsiángkiun has authority over[...]the Mohammedans of the Eight cities in Ilí south of the Tien Shán, who are under resident ministers of different degrees.]

   • [1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission‎^[2], →OCLC, →OL, page 152:

     We flew over the Tien-Shan mountains on an air route to Chungking opened in 1940.]

   • 1956, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map: A Political and Economic Geography of The Chinese People's Republic‎^[3], Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 256:

     Pending the completion of the Sinkiang railroad, the region is served by a number of major land routes that have been transportation links since ancient times. They are the North Road (north of the Tien Shan) passing from Kansu through Urumchi and Wusu, where it bifurcates into two routes going to the Soviet Union.

   • 1958, Survey of China Mainland Press‎^[4], numbers 1762-1781, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

     Work on the Tien Shan tunnel project at Tapancheng will also be advanced in the beginning of May.

   • 1964, G. J. Alder, British India's Northern Frontier 1865-1895: A Study in Imperial Policy‎^[5], Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., →OCLC, page 34:

     In 1851, the Russians obtained important trade privileges on the Sino-Russian border and the right to establish factories and a Consulate at Kuldja north of the Tien Shan.

   • 1968, Theodore Shabad, “TIEN SHAN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 21, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1138, column 2:

     Situated in the Soviet Union and China, the Tien Shan is about 1,500 mi. (2,500 km.) long, trending generally west-southwest to east-northeast.

   • 1972, Stanley Karnow, Mao and China: Inside China's Cultural Revolution‎^[6], Penguin Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 251:

     The first large-scale clash in Sinkiang occurred on January 26 at Shih-ho-tzu, a military outpost of eighty thousand inhabitants lying in the shadow of the massive Tien Shan range that separates China from the Soviet Union.

   • [1974, D. J. Dwyer, editor, China Now: an Introductory Survey with Readings‎^[7], Longman, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 222:

     Now a survey of the section from Urumchi to the Ala Shan Pass, on the Soviet border, has been finished, and the roadbed has reached the northern side of the T’ien Shan [23].]

   • 2021 April 22, Stephen Colbert, 3:31 from the start, in Make Mother's Day Special With A Gift From Covetton House‎^[8], A Late Show with Stephen Colbert:

     And if you're more interested in giving Mom an experience she'll never forget, why not give her a sixty-three hundred dollar per person trip to Kyrgyzstan riding horses in the magnificent Tien Shan Mountains with a relative of Leo Tolstoy.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tien Shan.

Derived terms

• tienshanite

Further reading

• “Tien Shan”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Tien Shan, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “Tien Shan”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Tien Shan”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Tien Shan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.