chin-ch'uan

Example Sentences

• "A magnificent find was reported in Wen Wu, 1966, 3, from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province."
• "A magnificent find was first reported from Chin-ch'uan County, Kansu Province in 1963.¹"
• "Figs. 2.44a-c Dhyānāsana Buddha with mandorla, canopy and 4-footed stand, from Yü-tu hsiang, Chin-ch'uan hsien, eastern Kansu, gilt bronze, Phase II, Kansu sheng po-wu-kuan, Lan chou"
• "The silver earrings worn by the women of the Chin-chʻuan, a border district of Ssŭ-chʻuan inhabited by Tibetans, are shown in fig. 2."
• "The name Chin-ch'uan during the Han period was applied to a tribe of the southern Man. During the Ming period, a lama monk of the Chin-ch'uan Monastery named Hai-mai was invested as Monk of the Transformation with hereditary domain in the Chin-ch'uan region. Subsequently his descendants (evidently he was a marrying monk) multiplied and spread out to inhabit the drainage area of the Chin Ch'uan or Gold River. During the early Ch'ing period when feudatories were conferred by the Manchu rulers, this region was divided up into the Ta-chin-ch'uan or Great Gold River, and the Hsiao-chin-ch'uan or Little Gold River territories."
• "He professed to have twice defeated the Sungars in Outer Mongolia and Sinkiang, once suppressed the rebellion of Moslems in Turkestan, twice put down insurrections in the Chin-ch’uan region in western Szechwan, once pacified a rebellion in Taiwan (Formosa), subjugated Burma and Annam, and twice vanquished the Gurkhas."