Haidong
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Hai-tung
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 海東／海东 (Hǎidōng).
Proper noun
Haidong
- A prefecture-level city in Qinghai, China.
- 2008 [2002], Fischer, Andrew M., “44. Dalai and his followers claim that 7.5 million Han have been emigrated to Tibet, and that Tibetans have become a minority nationality in the region. Is that true?”, in Anne-Marie Blondeau, Katia Buffetrille, editors, Le Tibet est-il chinois? Résponses à cent questions chinoises [Authenticating Tibet: Answers to China's 100 Questions], University of California Press, →ISBN, LCCN 2007012135, OCLC 87772917, page 146:
- The exercise is complicated by the fact that populations in borderland areas are often mixed within a single county, although segregation might still remain very distinct. For instance, in Xunhua Salar Autonomous County of the Haidong District in Qinghai, the birthplace of the 10th Panchen Lama, Tibetans account for about one-fifth of the population. However, this Tibetan population remains very homogeneous in the higher-altitude townships of the county to this day, while Salar Muslims dominate the lower-altitude townships and towns, and this pattern of segregation pre-dates the twentieth century.
- 2013 February 26, “Tibetan monks self-immolate in anti-China protest”, in AP News:
- Authorities in Qinghai’s Haidong prefecture, where the second protest took place, either could not be reached or said they had no information on the case.
- 2016, Tsering Bum, Guardians of Nature: Tibetan Pastoralists and the Natural World, ISSN 1835-7741, LCCN 2008944256, OCLC 953615688, page 165:
- Tanwang did not need to worry about the collectors demanding money. That same day, I talked to a group of Mongour from Minhe County in Haidong Region. I asked them whether they would demand return of the permit fees.
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Translations
prefecture-level city
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