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China proper en · PROPN

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1. China excluding Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Taiwan, Tibet, Tuva, and Xinjiang.
   • 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. 2018, Liangren Zhang, Dongju Zhang, Xiaohong Wu, Kai Wang, Guoke Chen, Hui Wang, Peng Wang, “Ancient mud-brick architecture of Northwest China”, in Paléorient, volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • 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) 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, volume 12, number 1, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1, 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! 1798 October 20 [1797], “CALCULATIONS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE GLOBE.”, in The Rural Magazine, volume I, number 36, Newark, →OCLC, page 2:
   • Tun-huang, which means 'Blazing Beacon', was thus the last caravan halt in China proper for travellers setting out along the old Silk Road. 1980, Peter Hopkirk, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Oxford University Press, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 156:

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mainland China

Translations (19)

fr Chine propre (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · cmn 內地十八省 /内地十八省 (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · pt China propriamente dita (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · sw Uchina ya Kiasili (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · sv Egentliga Kina (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · fi Varsinainen Kiina (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · es China histórica (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · ar ٱلصِّينُ ٱلدَّاخِلِيَّةُ (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · ja 中国本土 (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · pl Chiny (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · sw Uchina Halisi (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · cmn 中國本土 /中国本土 (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · pt Dezoito Províncias (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · cmn 漢地 /汉地 (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · ru коренно́й Кита́й (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · ru вну́тренний Кита́й (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · pt China Interior (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · sv Inre kina (parts of China excluding outer frontiers) · cmn 中國本部 /中国本部 (parts of China excluding outer frontiers)