英和和英

固有名詞

A map of China Proper, Manchuria, Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Tibet in 1944.

China proper

1. China excluding Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, Tuva, and Xinjiang.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:China proper.
   • 1798 October 20 [1797], “CALCULATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE.”, in The Rural Magazine‎^[1], volume I, number 36, Newark, OCLC 1073346974, page 2:

     Chowta-Zhin, who is ſaid to be a man of buſineſs and preciſion, and cautious of advancing facts, at the requeſt of Earl Macartney, delivered to him a ſtatement taken from one of the public officers in the capitol, of the inhabitants of the fifteen ancient provinces of China, or China proper, within the great wall ; according to which the number of inhabitants, taken by a regular enumeration, amounts to 333,000,000!

   • 1980, Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road‎^[2], Oxford University Press, published 1984, →ISBN, LCCN 83-24092, OCLC 10207988, page 156:

     Tun-huang, which means 'Blazing Beacon', was thus the last caravan halt in China proper for travellers setting out along the old Silk Road.

   • 2018, Liangren Zhang, Dongju Zhang, Xiaohong Wu, Kai Wang, Guoke Chen, Hui Wang and Peng Wang, “Ancient mud-brick architecture of Northwest China”, in Paléorient‎^[3], volume 44, number 1, DOI:10.3406/paleo.2018.5787, ISSN 1957-701X, OCLC 793454145:

     The site is located in the Hexi Corridor, a critical section of the Silk Road, and the multi-room layout of the buildings and the wheat/barley crops hint at dual directions of inspiration, but it is yet uncertain whether the Xichengyi community absorbed the mud-brick building technology from Central Asia. The microscopic and particle size analyses, however, confirm that the second type of mud-brick was ingeniously fused with the earth ramming technique from China proper.

   • 2020, Shiqi Liang, “Architecture and Geography of China Proper: Influence of Geography on the Diversity of Chinese Traditional Architectural Motifs and the Cultural Values They Reflect”, in Culture, Society, and Praxis‎^[4], volume 12, number 1, ISSN 1544-3159, OCLC 909881657, pages 1, 2:

     To accommodate a fast growing urban population, real estate developers favor tall, rectangular, concrete apartment buildings over traditional Chinese architectures. The buildings in northern cities no longer look distinguishable from buildings in southern cities. Revisiting those diverse architectural motifs serves as a reminder of how diverse China proper really is.[...]East of the thick red lines is a rough definition of China proper (Lin et al., 2015)