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... from Sichuan (Adshead 1984 , 82). Taxes levied by Zhao in Kham came to only 68,200 taels in 1910 (Weng 1930 , 168; Xikang sheng caizheng ting 1940 , 37). After 1911, central authority in the primary successor state to the Qing, the Republic of China, rapidly weakened and Chinese authority...

... Tibetan sources and not taking the Tibetan perspective into account leads to confusion over geography. While Wang refers to the region as Kham, his understanding of the term conforms to the later Republican creation of Xikang Province. Unfortunately, Qing references to Kang (康) or Kamu (喀木) and the later...

... needs to be taken into consideration—and it is not mentioned in this work—is the obvious fact that all of the rich cross-cultural exchange explored in this book takes place in the borderlands, far from the metropoles of Beijing and Lhasa (in Gansu, Hangzhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Kham, Amdo, Xikang, and even...

... Lama was useful in dealing with Lhasa, he was critical for the Nationalists in their policies toward Mongols and Tibetan areas in Qinghai, Gansu, and Xikang, where the Nationalist presence was weak (pp. 95–96). More was at stake than the Panchen Lama serving the Nationalists' interests and claiming his...

... STUDIES help readers to cross reference with other sources that do not use Goldstein's phonetic spelling of Tibetan names. The volume also suffers from some inconsistencies in the romanization of Chinese terms: X'ian instead of Xi'an or Hsi-an (p. 1), Xigang instead of Xikang or Hsi-kang (p. 44), and Mao...

... in the romanization of Chinese terms: X'ian instead of Xi'an or Hsi-an (p. 1), Xigang instead of Xikang or Hsi-kang (p. 44), and Mao Zedung instead of Mao Zedong or Mao Tsetung (p. 37 and throughout). These minor flaws aside, Goldstein's volume represents a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the past...

..., what the thoughts of those mountains and rivers still do to us. (Quoted in TDSDS 1982:461) The Big Trip of 1929 was more impressive yet. Eighteen units of three to seven students travelled northeast as far as Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East, northwest to Xi'an and beyond, west into Sichuan and Xikang...