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Further sources on the Otagh salt lakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

S. A. M. Adshead
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Readers of Father Serruys's two articles on the Ordos salt lakes may be interested in the evidence relating to the episode referred to in his documents, which is provided by the reports, 1917–22, of the Sino-foreign salt inspectorate. The evidence is twofold: direct, relating to the episode itself, and indirect, relating to the context. In preliminary clarification it should be stated that both Chinese and Sino-foreign sources refer to three Ordos salt lakes at this date: Pei-ta-ch'ih, the northern great lake, ‘200 li due north of Hua-mach'ih’; Wo-po-ch'ih, evidently a transliteration; and Kou-ch'ih, the dog or petty lake. These would seem to be equivalent, respectively, to Father Serruys's Great Lake, Lake of the Cairn or obo, and Little Siker Lake.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 1983 , pp. 333 - 335
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1983

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References

1 BSOAS, XL, 2, 1977, 338–53Google Scholar; BSOAS, XLII, 1, 1979, 61–5.Google Scholar

2 China, The Chief Inspectorate of the Central Salt Administration, Reports by the District Inspectors, Auditors and Collectors on the Reorganization of the Salt Revenue Administration in China, 1913–1917, 1918, 1919–1921, 1922, Peking, 1919, 1922, 1925 (2), hereafter cited as District Reports. These documents may be found in the Toyo Bunko. I would be grateful to know of any other copies and in particular of reports after 1922.

3 Chung-kuo yen-cheng shih-lu (Veritable records of the Chinese salt administration), Nanking, 1933, III, 1782.Google Scholar

4 District Reports, 1918, 113.

5 District Reports, 1919–1921, 81.

6 District Reports, 1919–1921,171.

7 District Reports, 1919–1921, 253.

8 District Reports, 1919–1921, 251.

9 District Reports, 1922, 93.

10 District Reports, 1922, 92.

11 District Reports, 1922, 92.

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13 Yen-cheng shih-lu, III, 1782.Google Scholar

14 Some of these parameters are further elaborated in my ‘The border salt trade in northwest China, 1900–1950’, forthcoming in Proceedings of the third International Symposium on Asian Studies, 1981, Asian Research Service, Hong Kong.Google Scholar