Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I DEFINITION
- CHAPTER II THE CENTRAL KINGDOM: CHINA
- CHAPTER III THE NORTHERN BASIN. THE YELLOW RIVER
- CHAPTER IV THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART I. THE YANGTSE RIVER
- CHAPTER V THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART II. THE PROVINCE OF SZECHUAN
- CHAPTER VI THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART III. THE CHENGTU PLATEAU
- CHAPTER VII THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART IV. THE LOWER YANGTSE PROVINCES
- CHAPTER VIII THE INTERMEDIATE PROVINCES
- CHAPTER IX THE SOUTHERN BASIN. YUNNAN TO CANTON
- CHAPTER X THE DEPENDENCIES: PART I. MANCHURIA
- CHAPTER XI THE DEPENDENCIES: PART II. MONGOLIA
- CHAPTER XII THE DEPENDENCIES: PART III. TURKESTAN
- CHAPTER XIII THE DEPENDENCIES: PART IV. TIBET
- CHAPTER XIV WHILOM DEPENDENCIES: PART I. INDO-CHINA
- CHAPTER XV WHILOM DEPENDENCIES: PART II. COREA
- CHAPTER XVI THE BUFFER KINGDOM: SIAM
- CHAPTER XVII THE ISLAND EMPIRE: JAPAN
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER XII - THE DEPENDENCIES: PART III. TURKESTAN
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2010
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- Contents
- LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I DEFINITION
- CHAPTER II THE CENTRAL KINGDOM: CHINA
- CHAPTER III THE NORTHERN BASIN. THE YELLOW RIVER
- CHAPTER IV THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART I. THE YANGTSE RIVER
- CHAPTER V THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART II. THE PROVINCE OF SZECHUAN
- CHAPTER VI THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART III. THE CHENGTU PLATEAU
- CHAPTER VII THE MIDDLE BASIN: PART IV. THE LOWER YANGTSE PROVINCES
- CHAPTER VIII THE INTERMEDIATE PROVINCES
- CHAPTER IX THE SOUTHERN BASIN. YUNNAN TO CANTON
- CHAPTER X THE DEPENDENCIES: PART I. MANCHURIA
- CHAPTER XI THE DEPENDENCIES: PART II. MONGOLIA
- CHAPTER XII THE DEPENDENCIES: PART III. TURKESTAN
- CHAPTER XIII THE DEPENDENCIES: PART IV. TIBET
- CHAPTER XIV WHILOM DEPENDENCIES: PART I. INDO-CHINA
- CHAPTER XV WHILOM DEPENDENCIES: PART II. COREA
- CHAPTER XVI THE BUFFER KINGDOM: SIAM
- CHAPTER XVII THE ISLAND EMPIRE: JAPAN
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
If we start from the southernmost corner of Mongolia where the Gobi desert impinges on the Great Wall, north of the Chinese province of Kansu,—crossing, on our way south, the arids and waste of Ala-shan,—we are suddenly brought up by the high mountain range that divides the Gobi desert on the north from the little-less desert country of the Koko-nor and Tibet on the south.
This mountain range, crossed by Prejevalski and named by him the Richthofen range, after the celebrated German traveller of that name, forms a fertile isthmus between two deserts by which the road leads from China proper to the Tarim basin and the Lob-nor depression in the west, and so brings us to the subject of our present chapter—Chinese Turkestan.
Chinese Turkestan, also known as Eastern Turkestan, is officially called by the Chinese, Hsinkiang or the New Dominion, adding, since 1877, as the result of Tso Tsung-tang's great campaign against the successors of Yakob Beg, a nineteenth to the original eighteen provinces of China proper,—although this name is unknown to the inhabitants, who are familiar only with the local names, such as Hi with Kulja to the north of the Tien-shan; and Khotan, Yarkand and Kashgar to the south.
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- The Far East , pp. 186 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010