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Kham

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Kham is a historical region of Tibet covering a land area largely divided between present-day Tibet Autonomous Region and Sichuan, with smaller portions located within Qinghai, Gansu and Yunnan provinces of China. [1]

60 relations: Amdo, Batang County, Beijing, Chamdo, Charles Alfred Bell, China, Chinese Civil War, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Chushi Gangdruk, Counties of the People's Republic of China, Derge, Dzungar Khanate, Francis Younghusband, Gansu, Gombo Namgye, Han Chinese, Hengduan Mountains, Hor States, Hugh Edward Richardson, Khams Tibetan, Kingdom of Chakla, Kingdom of Derge, Kingdom of Lingtsang, Kuomintang, Liu Wenhui, McMahon Line, Mekong, Nangqên County, Nyarong, Outline of Tibet, Pandatsang Rapga, People's Liberation Army, Presidencies and provinces of British India, Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950, Punitive expedition, Qiangic languages, Qing dynasty, Qinghai, Republic of China (1912–1949), Salween River, Sichuan, Sikkim, Simla Accord (1914), Sinicization of Tibet, South Tibet, Three Principles of the People, Tibet Autonomous Region, Tibet Improvement Party, Tibetan Empire, Tibetan people, ..., Tongzhi Emperor, Tuttle Publishing, Xikang, Xining, Yalong River, Yangtze, Yunnan, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Zhao Erfeng, 1934 Khamba rebellion. Expand index (10 more) »

Amdo

Amdo (ʔam˥˥.to˥˥) is one of the three traditional regions of Tibet, the other two being Ü-Tsang and Kham; it is also the birthplace of the 14th Dalai Lama.

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Batang County

Batang County is a county located in western Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China.

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Beijing

Beijing, formerly romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's second most populous city proper, and most populous capital city.

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Chamdo

Chamdo, officially Qamdo, and known in Chinese as Changdu, is a prefecture-level city in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

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Charles Alfred Bell

Sir Charles Alfred Bell, KCIE CMG (October 31, 1870 – March 8, 1945) was the British Political Officer for Bhutan, Sikkim and Tibet.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama

Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen (19 February 1938 – 28 January 1989) was the tenth Panchen Lama of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Chushi Gangdruk

Chushi Gangdruk (literally "Four Rivers, Six Ranges", full name:, "the Kham Four Rivers, Six Ranges Tibetan Defenders of the Faith Volunteer Army") was an organization of Tibetan guerrilla fighters who attempted to stop the invasion of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Tibet.

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Counties of the People's Republic of China

Counties, formally county-level divisions, are found in the third level of the administrative hierarchy in Provinces and Autonomous regions, and the second level in municipalities and Hainan, a level that is known as "county level" and also contains autonomous counties, county-level cities, banners, autonomous banner, and City districts.

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Derge

Derge is a town in Dêgê County in Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan, China.

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Dzungar Khanate

The Dzungar Khanate, also written as the Zunghar Khanate, was an Oirat khanate on the Eurasian Steppe.

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Francis Younghusband

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942) was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer.

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Gansu

Gansu (Tibetan: ཀན་སུའུ་ Kan su'u) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northwest of the country.

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Gombo Namgye

Gombo Namgye (17991865), also known as Bulungwa (literally 'Blind Man'), was a Tibetan rebel leader from Nyarong who unified Nyarong, then all of Kham in a series of campaigns from the 1840s to the 1860s and warred against the Qing Dynasty and the Ganden Phodrang.

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Han Chinese

The Han Chinese,.

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Hengduan Mountains

The Hengduan Mountains are a group of mountain ranges in southwest China that connect the southeast portions of the Tibetan Plateau with the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau.

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Hor States

The Hor States, also known as the Horpa States, were a group of five principalities located in the Tibetan region of Kham that existed from the 14th century to the mid-1900s.

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Hugh Edward Richardson

Hugh Edward Richardson (22 December 1905 – 3 December 2000) was an Indian Civil Service officer, British diplomat and Tibetologist.

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Khams Tibetan

Khams Tibetan is the Tibetic language used by the majority of the people in Kham, which is now divided between the eastern part of Tibet Autonomous Region, the southern part of Qinghai, the western part of Sichuan, and the northwestern part of Yunnan, China.

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Kingdom of Chakla

Chakla was a kingdom in the Tibetan region of Kham.

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Kingdom of Derge

The Kingdom of Derge was an important kingdom in Kham from the 15th to the 19th century.

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Kingdom of Lingtsang

Lingtsang (Wylie: gling tshang, Tibetan གླིང་ཚང) was formerly one of the Kham region's five independent kingdoms of Tibet and is now administered by the CCP since occupation & invasion of Tibet by China in 1950.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

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Liu Wenhui

Liu Wenhui (1895–24 June 1976) was one of the warlords of Sichuan province during China's Warlord era.

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McMahon Line

The McMahon Line is a border line between Tibetan region of China and North-east region of India, proposed by British colonial administrator Henry McMahon at the 1914 Simla Convention which was signed between the British and the Tibetan representatives.

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Mekong

The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia.

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Nangqên County

Nangqên County, or Nangchen, was formerly one of Kham region's five independent kingdoms and now administered by the CCP as a county of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in southernmost Qinghai province, China.

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Nyarong

Nyarong is a Tibetan historical region located in Eastern Kham.

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Outline of Tibet

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Tibet: Tibet is a plateau region in Asia and the home to the indigenous Tibetan people.

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Pandatsang Rapga

Pandatsang Rapga (1902–1974) was a Khamba revolutionary during the first half of the 20th century in Tibet.

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People's Liberation Army

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The Provinces of India, earlier Presidencies of British India and still earlier, Presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance in the subcontinent.

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Protests and uprisings in Tibet since 1950

Protests and uprisings in Tibet against the government of the People's Republic of China have occurred since 1950, and include the 1959 uprising, the 2008 uprising, and the subsequent self-immolation protests.

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Punitive expedition

A punitive expedition is a military journey undertaken to punish a state or any group of persons outside the borders of the punishing state.

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Qiangic languages

Qiangic (Ch'iang, Kyang, Tsiang), formerly known as Dzorgaic, is a group of related languages within the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Qinghai

Qinghai, formerly known in English as Kokonur, is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest of the country.

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Republic of China (1912–1949)

The Republic of China was a sovereign state in East Asia, that occupied the territories of modern China, and for part of its history Mongolia and Taiwan.

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Salween River

The Salween, known in China as the Nu River, is a river about long that flows from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea in Southeast Asia.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in Northeast India.

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Simla Accord (1914)

The Simla Accord, or the Convention Between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, Simla,, Tibet Justice Center.

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Sinicization of Tibet

The sinicization of Tibet refers to the cultural assimilation which has occurred in Tibetan areas of China (including the Tibet Autonomous Region and surrounding Tibetan-designated autonomous areas) and has made these areas resemble mainstream Chinese society.

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South Tibet

South Tibet is a literal translation of the Chinese term Zàngnán (藏南), which may refer to different geographic areas.

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Three Principles of the People

The Three Principles of the People, also translated as Three People's Principles, San-min Doctrine, or Tridemism is a political philosophy developed by Sun Yat-sen as part of a philosophy to make China a free, prosperous, and powerful nation.

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Tibet Autonomous Region

The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) or Xizang Autonomous Region, called Tibet or Xizang for short, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Tibet Improvement Party

The Tibet Improvement Party was a nationalist, revolutionary, anti-feudal and pro-Republic of China political party in Tibet.

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Tibetan Empire

The Tibetan Empire ("Great Tibet") existed from the 7th to 9th centuries AD when Tibet was unified as a large and powerful empire, and ruled an area considerably larger than the Tibetan Plateau, stretching to parts of East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.

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Tibetan people

The Tibetan people are an ethnic group native to Tibet.

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Tongzhi Emperor

The Tongzhi Emperor (27 April 185612 January 1875), born Zaichun of the Aisin Gioro clan, was the tenth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty, and the eighth Qing emperor to rule over China.

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Tuttle Publishing

Tuttle Publishing, originally the Charles E. Tuttle Company, is a book publishing company that includes Tuttle, Periplus Editions, and Journey Editions.

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Xikang

Xikang or Sikang or Hsikang was a province of the Republic of China and early People's Republic of China.

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Xining

Xining (Xīníng; ཟི་ལིང་། Ziling) is the capital of Qinghai province in western China, and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.

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Yalong River

The Yalong River (Chinese: 雅砻江, p Yǎlóngjiāng, w Ya-lung Chiang, IPA) or Nyag Chu (Tibetan: ཉག་ཆུ་, z Nyag Qu) is an long river in Sichuan province in southwestern China.

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Yangtze

The Yangtze, which is 6,380 km (3,964 miles) long, is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.

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Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Yulshul Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, commonly known as Yushu (retranscribed into Tibetan as), is an autonomous prefecture of southwestern Qinghai province, China.

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Zhao Erfeng

Zhao Erfeng (1845–1911), courtesy name Jihe, was a Qing Dynasty official and Han Chinese bannerman (Manchurized Han Chinese), who belonged to the Plain Blue Banner.

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1934 Khamba rebellion

The 1934 Khamba rebellion was a rebellion in the western regions of Kham in Xikang against the Tibetan Government and the Sichuan Warlord Liu Wenhui.

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Do-toe, Dotoe, Dotö, East Tibet, Eastern Tibet, Khampapa, Khams, MDo sTod, MDo-sTod, Mdo stod, Mdo-stod.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kham

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