Aksai Chin
English
A map of Aksai Chin (the largest/northernmost of the areas in red).
Alternative forms
- Aksai-chin
- (lake) Aksayqin
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɑːksaɪ ˈtʃɪn/
Proper noun
Aksai Chin
- One of the two parts of the Kashmir region administered by the People's Republic of China. The rest of Kashmir is split between Pakistan and India.
- 1868, Albert M. Verchere, “Kashmir, the Western Himalaya and the Afghan Mountains”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume XXXVI, OCLC 1016373343, page 111:
- The bed is not limited to the belt of country situated between Ser and Mer (Snowy Peak Range) chain and the Kailas chain. It is well developed in Rodok, near the Pang Chong Lake and up to the foot of the Korakoram chain, and it is very probable that the great Desert of Aksai Chin is a similar bed.
- 1874, Keith Johnston, The Surface Zones of the Globe, W. & A. K. Johnston, OCLC 9025830, page 37:
- In the basin which lies immediately eastward of the valley of the head stream of the Indus, is the Aksai Chin, or White desert, concerning which, however, little more is known to Europeans than the name.
- [1904, M. A. Stein, A Journey of Geographical and Archaeological Exploration in Chinese Turkestan (Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution 1903), Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 759:
- In a grand mountain mass raising its glacier-crowned head in solitary splendor to the southeast, it was impossible to mistake the "Kuen-luen peak, No. 5," already triangulated from the Ladak side (pl. II). Behind this great mountain, for which the tables supplied by the survey department indicated a height of 23,890 feet, to the south and southeast there was to be seen a magnificent line of high snowy peaks marking the watershed toward the westernmost portion of the Aksai-chin plateau of Tibet.]
- 1964, Alastair Lamb, The China-India Border, Oxford University Press, OCLC 226153454, page 7:
- In this sector there are really two quite distinct disputes. The first is the issue of Aksai Chin, the desolate high wastes of the extreme north-east of Kashmir, across which the Chinese have built a motor road linking western Tibet with Sinkiang....The bulk of the contested area lies in the Aksai Chin region. South of the Panggong lake there are a number of contested points, near Chushul and at Demchok on the Indus for example. The Changchenmo serves as a connecting region between the Chinese claims in Aksai Chin and those south of Panggong lake.
- 2011, Kissinger, Henry, On China, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2011009265, OCLC 1025648355, page 186:
- When India proclaimed its independence from Britain, it did not proclaim its independence from British territorial claims. It included the Aksai Chin territory as well as the line demarcated by McMahon on all of its maps.
- 2021 March, Freddie Wilkinson, “A Line in the Mountains”, in National Geographic, page 112:
- Then in 1962, Chinese forces seized the Aksai Chin, a high desert region in the eastern corner of Kashmir, which further muddled the border question.
-
- A lake in Hotan County, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang, China, part of the disputed Aksai Chin.
- [1922, Hedin, Sven, Southern Tibet, Stockholm, OCLC 1227360602, page 5:
- This pass is described as situated in the Kisil-korum Range, which is a branch from the Kara-tagh Range. The next day they arrived at the great lake Aksáe Chin, 16,620 feet, although I cannot make out what particular lake he means.]
-
Translations
part of Kashmir administered by China
|
See also
- Ladakh
Further reading
- “Aksai Chin, pn.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Portuguese
Proper noun
Aksai Chin m
- Aksai Chin (a macroregion of Kashmir, governed by China)