China proper

See also: China Proper

English

Alternative forms

• China Proper

Proper noun

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, 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, →OCLC, 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, Peng Wang, “Ancient mud-brick architecture of Northwest China”, in Paléorient‎^[3], volume 44, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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, →OCLC, 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)

Translations

parts of China excluding outer frontiers

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 中國本部／中国本部 (Zhōngguó běnbù) (not commonly understood), 中國本土／中国本土 (zh) (Zhōngguó běntǔ) (not commonly understood), 內地十八省／内地十八省 (nèidì shíbā shěng) (Qing dynasty term)

• Finnish: Varsinainen Kiina
• French: Chine propre (fr) f
• Japanese: 中国本土 (ちゅうごくほんど, Chūgoku hondo)
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: вну́тренний Кита́й m (vnútrennij Kitáj), коренно́й Кита́й m (korennój Kitáj)
• Spanish: China histórica f
• Swahili: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: Egentliga Kina n, Inre kina n

See also

• mainland China

Further reading

• “China proper”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.