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Tsinghai

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Map including part of TSINGHAI PROVINCE (ATC, 1972)

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Tsinghai

  1. Alternative form of Qinghai
    • 1971, Donald W. Klein, Anne B. Clark, “Kao Feng”, in Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism 1921-1965[1], volume I, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:
      Born in Tsinghai, Kao has spent his entire career in his native northwest as a Party and government official. He was first reported in 1946 as a delegate from Yen-ch’ih hsien to the Third Assembly of the Shensi-Kansu-Ninghsia (Shen-Kan-Ning) Border Region, the first session of which was held in April 1946.
    • 1971, Peter Bridgham, Mao's Cultural Revolution in 1967 (China In Ferment Perspectives on the Cultural Revolution)‎[2], Prentice Hall, page 131:
      Liu's account of developments in Tsinghai omitted one important fact- that his predecessor in command of the Tsinghai Provincial Military District...had "carried out savage, armed repression of revolutionary mass organizations."
    • 1981 August 30, “Moslem Under Control”, in Free China Weekly[3], volume XXII, number 34, Taipei, page 3:
      Party members who are Moslems are urged to attend “special seminars” emphasizing “political learning.” Recently in Kansu and Tsinghai provinces, the typical theme of such seminars is “learning more from Marx and less from Muhammad.”
    • 1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness[4], Houghton Mifflin Company, page 2:
      A fantastic legend was told about the first Gyalwai Odzer. This legend, believed to be authentic, had no fixed origin in time because the nomads of the region, the Tibetan province Tsinghai, could not, not even vaguely, indicate a date. The legend, however, was clear enough, so well known that it was no longer discussed, for everybody had been told the tale during childhood. It had become a dogma, to be believed passively without even trying to ascertain its probability or validity.
    • 2014, Quanyu Huang, The Hybrid Tiger: Secrets of the Extraordinary Success of Asian-American Kids[5], Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 170:
      In December 2009, the Tsinghai University Diving Team came to America for a competition.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tsinghai.

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